Come on, man. We can do better than this. Our communities in States like West Virginia and New Hampshire and Delaware are expecting something far better than that kind of response.

So I want to make sure I understand this. Let me get this straight. The Biden administration's policy to combat this overdose epidemic is to shorten sentences for fentanyl traffickers? Seriously? This is your answer?

I think what you are doing by your memo is you are only going to make it worse.

If I could recover my--that--we are not hearing the same. They are not--the people that I am talking to throughout West Virginia and places are not concurring with that, that there are delays in--and they are very concerned about the…

Now, Assistant Administrator, Section 902--just in your opinion, I know that you haven't crafted the bill, but it is out there before us--Section 902 of the Clean Future Act restricts the building or expansion of American plastic…

But it appears to me the policies that have been put forth in the last ten months are doing diametrically opposite.

Unfortunately, instead of promoting innovation and supporting the chemical industry, as the Act intended, it seems like EPA is stifling innovation and creating barriers to commerce for new and existing materials.

But now it is five years later, and this committee, I think, apparently now, we are looking to see how it has been implemented.

I don't understand what is happening under this Administration.

I will never vote for a mandate, because that is just going to make more resistance to the vaccine, and more distrust of the Federal Government.

With all due respect, Chairman Rush--and we have been friends for years--this hearing seems to be taking on an air of distraction from what Americans are really dealing with across this country.

I introduced the bipartisan Global Investment in American Jobs Act with my colleague, Congressman Bobby Rush, to ensure that the U.S. remains a premier destination to invest, innovate, hire, and manufacture.

As Congress considers significant additional resources to boost broadband deployment and close the digital divide...

I commend Chairman Doyle and Representative Matsui for their leadership on this issue through the Spectrum Innovation Act.

the role of the CSB is to investigate accidents and determine the conditions and circumstances that led up to those accidents

drive chemical safety change through independent investigations

In my opinion, I think they've--one, they've lost confidence in the Government and the CDC and the FDA.

the administration has taken--he's--they're acting like bullies by requiring all Federal employees and contractors that have over 100 employees to have all their workers vaccinated by November 22nd.

And that wasn't helped by now Vice President Kamala Harris when she stated that she wouldn't get a vaccination developed under President Trump.

I thought our whole mission here was to try to find ways of reducing CO2 emissions so that we could teach China, India, Indonesia, and others how to clean up their environments.

Yet these attacks on our critical infrastructure certainly, I think, could be mitigated with updated reforms to our international treaty, including some stiff, enforceable penalties.

Unfortunately, seem to be continuing to block this optional exchange of building additional pipelines as a redundant system.

I am a little frustrated that you all have put together a lot of efforts to try to help out and guide us, but even Johnny Wooden used to say there is some confusion over efforts versus accomplishments.

I think there is an alternative that we don't have to face all the problems because they are telling me we may have hundreds of thousands of miles of transmission lines we have to put in as we make this transition.