After the Sackett decision, the robust Federal protections for our Nation's waters have been eliminated for more than 50 percent of wetlands and up to 70 percent of streams.

To make broad statements that projects are getting killed every day because of WOTUS does not actually line up with the facts.

Passing the Clean Water Act of 2023, a bill I introduced in partnership with Ranking Member Napolitano, would restore the historic, bipartisan protections that the Sackett decision removed.

It is more effective and less costly to prevent pollution than to clean up pollution.

It just seems to me, returning to a pre-Sackett system of uniform Federal protections would be better than a patchwork approach.

I applaud the tireless work of the transportation safety advocates who help hold Congress and the administration to account as we work to make our roadways safer.

Everyone is for roadway safety--I don't question that at all--but it does seem you are making somewhat of a case, if we just leave it to formula grants only, there is no guarantee investment will be made in roadway safety as opposed to if we had the competitive grants for roadway safety, we could better encourage the national policy in investment and infrastructure that actually takes into account safety.

opening statement

Thank you, Chairman Crawford and Ranking Member Norton, for holding this hearing today on the Department of Transportation's regulatory agenda.

While Congress writes the laws, federal agencies turn these legislative proposals into rules of the road that can be followed and enforced.

This DOT, under the leadership of Secretary Buttigieg, is implementing policies to make our transportation systems cleaner, greener, safer and more accessible.