Comprehensive regulations and oversight of autonomous vehicle deployment will be required to create and preserve high-quality, family-wage jobs.

The size and reach of this industry: trucks move over 70 percent of the nation's freight by weight, and there are 13.8 million large trucks registered in the U.S.

The size of the workforce: in 2022, the industry employed 3.5 million truck drivers.

The bottom line cannot be saving money--it must be saving lives.

Today's hearing is an opportunity for Members to learn more about the state of the automated commercial motor vehicle industry--what's happening now, what we might see in the future, and how these technological changes will impact public…

To all the victims that never saw justice and went unheard for years, we hear you and feel your pain.

Victim privacy is a paramount concern, but choosing not to disclose to Congress the existence of the investigation and purposely hiding it from any reporting mechanism is shameful, to say the least.

Thank you, Chair Webster, for holding this important oversight hearing.

Improving the acquisition program requires investing more into the Coast Guard so that they can bolster their oversight.

I recommend that folks vote for this en bloc, and I yield back the balance of my time.

As Representative Perry knows, he is showing great leadership on the T&I subcommittee that oversees public building use, economic development, and emergency management. In fact, we had a hearing last week with a couple of witnesses to…

I demand a recorded vote. The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Pennsylvania will be postponed. The Chair understands that amendment No. 98 will not be…