I urge this committee to fully fund the State Trade and Export Promotion program, or STEP, which helps States work with small- and medium-sized businesses to find new markets and overcome hurdles to exports.

With regard to the sequester, what we do know is that about 1,200 civilian employees at the naval bases in the district will be furloughed.

We know that 10,000 fewer seniors receive 10,000 fewer meals delivered to them who currently receive their meals through the Meals on Wheels program.

If you close that tower, you are going to slow down operations.

I urge this committee to adequately fund the Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP).

We need a next generation of highly skilled workers to maintain our strength in manufacturing and trade.

I just want to point out the irony, Administrator, that if you did have a line item of waste, fraud, and abuse of $627 million, under the sequester rules you could only cut that 8 to 10 percent.

I want to praise Administrator Huerta and his staff for efforts to extend occupational safety and health protections to flight attendants in their high-altitude workplace.

I didn't vote for the FAA authorization bill, because it amended the Railway Labor Act in a way that I believe will--is harmful to the right of workers to organize and to collectively bargain.

our success in this country when it comes to infrastructure doesn't happen by accident, it happens on purpose.

The bipartisan Congressional Commission on the Prevention of Weapons of Mass Destruction Proliferation and Terrorism (WMD Commission) determined in December 2008 that WMD terrorism is a continuing and serious threat.