Maria Cantwell

From the perspective of a variety of other areas, I know we've talked about some of them, obviously, manufacturing, in general, and infrastructure, but, obviously, housing, energy, cybersecurity, aviation--they're all sectors with major…

One idea Senator Collins and I have put forth is tax incentives, which would be the first ever federally recognized incentive for apprentice.

We need to keep going. We need to give you all the capacity for that and more because this weather aspect is so, so important.

I want us to be the innovators and continue to have a process that allows us to innovate.

I do think the center of excellence that we have been establishing at the FAA... has been a very, very helpful tool.

We want to stay very competitive in it.

I just want to continue to see us make this investment.

Well, I am not sure the arm-wrestling match is off. We might still have to bring it back.

These are very, very important issues to our economy of the future...

Canadians are upping by $200 million their oil response prevention because of the tar sand oil.

I think the issue here is that still given this designation, we have Portland on one side, who basically gets to be seen as rural.

We want to know we have your support in that.

So you need money. So we need money on this?

So you're saying in this new budget, there is support for the $1 billion that the Senate was able to push.

I always find it interesting when you see these movies, like Black Hat or what-have-you, it's always connected to energy.

Unfortunately, our House colleagues just did not get the urgency of this.

Investing in our water infrastructure and our public lands is all about jobs.

Today my colleagues and I are sending a letter to the President detailing how devastating the Interior and Forest Service budget would be to infrastructure and the infrastructure jobs that we need.

Investing in infrastructure is key for maintaining and growing our economy, and this is one of the most basic areas where we can grow jobs.

I wanted to ask, Ms. Simmons and maybe others, who might want to comment on the President's budget that is cutting greater than one half of the land acquisition funds, as it relates to the Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF).

Unfortunately, that is not what we are seeing in the President's proposed budget.

There are some very useful applications that people want in firefighting for drones.

I definitely think we should focus more on what it can do for us in providing that flexibility to the grid.

You cannot go stand in front of a Boeing plane in South Carolina and then not have a functioning Export-Import Bank.

Thank you for being here. Congratulations on your nomination.