Mike Gallagher

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page 223, line 22, after the dollar amount, insert ``(reduced by $96,000,000)''. Page 246, line 11, after…

I have a bill that would authorize such a program, and I just would encourage my colleagues on the committee to consider that.

I would highlight the fact that the Minnesota Department of Transportation found that the addition of a six-axle reduces wear and tear on roads by 37 percent.

In addition to safety, I think one of the promising positive externalities of this approach would be the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions, as someone who is concerned about climate change.

We know that when disasters strike our communities, they aren't Republican or Democratic. They are just people who need help.

I know that, for many of my constituents, their greatest concern today is that they still don't feel safe in their homes after Hurricane Harvey, and they don't see any progress being made toward preparing for the next storm.

We will also hear later from Supervisor Gore that FEMA still has not yet implemented DRRA provisions.

Time is of the essence.

People in my district are incredibly frustrated because we know we need additional detention to manage our floodwaters.

When will FEMA finally have its guidance issued on the implementation of this provision?

I don't believe any community out there is trying to game the system after a major disaster.

The United States Coast Guard and the Canadian Coast Guard work collaboratively to facilitate commerce on the Great Lakes during the ice season.

At the May 21st hearing, you stated that you would provide an answer on whether the Canadians assisted with any port needs this past winter in the U.S. that you know of.

We currently have the Mackinaw-class icebreaker. It is only half as wide as the vessels it escorts...

Is there an estimate of when the report will be completed and delivered?

And I just want to say your young men and women who are stationed up there in Sturgeon Bay are doing a phenomenal job, and have really done a good job of integrating into the local community.

I have heard a lot from my constituents in the Port of Green Bay... that there is an imminent need for a new Great Lakes heavy icebreaker.

I guess my concern would be related to the first question, that if we have already gone on record as saying that a new icebreaker is needed, that a second one was intended to be built, that is--if the new analysis is just a cause for…

I am all for cooperation with the Canadians, but I don't think we should outsource any of our icebreaking alliance to them.

the President was right in promulgating the Executive order last night to prohibit, in essence, Huawei and ZTE from engaging in the market in the United States

If you talk about switching, and if you are talking about rails and that is where it goes from a security concern to a genuine national security concern.

We do not need to have Chinese facial recognition technology on a transit railcar going to the Pentagon or anyplace else in Washington, DC, or I would enlarge that to Boston or L.A. or Chicago or Atlanta.

the highways and vehicles of tomorrow are going to be paved in silicon as much as they are in asphalt

this is a threat to the security of this Nation.

as you look at the Arctic as a zone of increasing competition, in the past year there has been a lot of reports that the Chinese Communist Party has attempted to secure a greater presence, not only Arctic in general, but in Greenland in…