The single largest reason that you had that vehicle available was the California Low Emission Vehicle program.

we don't have to write anything and we can take care of it by having management make it clear that any unwanted advance is totally out of line.

The National Park Service is a great treasure.

I don't think it takes a big meeting. It is like, look, folks, any unwanted advances just aren't allowed.

Actions will be louder than words in this in terms of the accountability.

I actually think it is the exception. There is a big misconception.

Let me make a final point on the ZEV program which is not greatly implicated here.

employees are not going to be thinking at the time they may want to do something that they shouldn't be doing whether this is a violation of subsection 4 of article 5 in chapter 2.

You know, this is hammering that Vermonter who has that Hobson's choice, but it's also very tough on taxpayers.

I'm all in if there are things we can do that won't compromise safety.

I was unable to vote on rollcall 505, 506, and 507. I would have voted ``no'' on rollcall 505 and 506, and ``aye'' on rollcall 507 had I been there. ____________________

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But this is about basic telephones. And it is pretty astonishing when you think about it that you can't have confidence as a business or as an individual that your call is going to go through.

And what is important for it is that it is an indication that this committee is sincerely committed to making certain that the tools of the modern economy, let alone the telephone, are available to folks in rural America.

Just think about it, that that short window of time, it depends on the phone system working, and it doesn't work right now.

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I hope that means that we will be able to focus on some of the other efforts that require some bipartisan cooperation like the homework gap in like the deployment of 5G.

Can we have some assurance that the rules that will be promulgated will take into account the extraordinary challenges that have existed in rural America about having access to the infrastructure that is essential for it to have the…

Anything we can do to help fill that gap is going to help students and the tethering you describe is ideal and could be really useful.

Thank you for your aggressive leadership on this. It really makes a difference in Vermont and a lot of our rural areas.

And can you comment on what steps can be taken in order to treat rural America as the first-class citizen?

You had to make a call that was based upon your view of the law, not your view of how it would affect the outcome of who would be the next Commander in Chief.