Gerry Connolly

And just to be clear about your testimony here today, it is your testimony that your company, going back to 1901, has, in fact, used PLAs as an effective tool successfully, and you have found it to be a felicitous relationship facilitating…

PLAs promote worker safety and guarantee a well-trained, highly-skilled workforce.

President Biden's infrastructure investments are revitalizing and creating local jobs in every congressional district.

That is why I applaud the pro-work policies of the Biden Administration.

Thank you, Madam Chair. I just want to point out that Mr. Dreher and his company, Cianbro, belong to the Associated General Contractors of America...

I have seen firsthand in my district what happens when project labor agreements are excluded from construction projects.

I continue to believe we have to codify it or we are in trouble.

So stipulated, but I am sort of making a different point.

How many Presidential management appointments are there in the Federal Government in a normal Presidential term?

The real purpose of the executive order was to provide the former President with the ability to dismiss, at start, at least 50,000 dedicated civil servants.

Returning to the spoils system is a bad idea for America.

It is not a deep state bureaucracy that thwarted, for example, the ill-advised plan to abolish your Agency and to fold it into GSA.

That was Members of Congress working on that.

Look, our Constitution put in place a series of checks and balances, and we elect a President to faithfully execute the laws.

If we did that it's your testimony--I don't want to put words in your mouth--that it would actually make Americans less safe

The solution isn't to abolish the agency.

If we abolish it would that make it easier for criminal cartels to traffic firearms in this country?

So, I do not want to put words in your mouth, but I am hearing you say, look, before we politically decide to dismiss something as an inconvenient fact, we need to have some skepticism about sourcing because of what Russia and China are…

It is very dangerous to rely on sources like that.

The Chinese Communist Party poses a significant threat to the safety and economic prosperity of the United States.

China remains the most active and persistent cyberthreat to U.S. Government, private sector, and critical infrastructure networks.

Thank you, Madam Chairwoman. Forgive me for being a little late, but we have too many hearings.

I want to go back to the danger of relying on Russian and China sources because they have an active agenda of insinuating.

H.R. 8334 is just one more frivolous attempt by Republicans to further demonize immigrants and stoke fears about migrants without actually doing anything.

I say to Mr. Raskin, what is so troubling is these are 100 percent preventable tragedies. Not one of these lives had to be lost but for the callousness and lack of regard at the Postal Service in vetting freight contractors.