This hearing is particularly important as the committee continues to oversee the implementation of the IIJA.

If implemented as Congress intended, the IIJA will facilitate the construction of much-needed energy, industrial, and transportation projects across the Country.

What kind of inconsistencies are you finding across the Country, and it is very frustrating, especially being from neighboring States and like habitats?

If we are talking about delays and bureaucracies and shortages of resources that you have sited, it seems to me that if you are dealing with the same species in relatively the same type of habitat, that mirroring this just makes total…

I think we all see what is happening in Europe, we know that the reliance on our own natural--our own energy resources, in an all-of-the-above energy plan, and we are feeling--I think most of us in energy states feeling as though that is…

On the Justice40 issue, I have tried to, like, dig deep into that to see--it is pledged that 40 percent of the funding that is going, is going to go to justice communities.

I just want to ask for your pledge again, that folks in the energy industry have an ability to come, knock on your door, and actually have their side of the story heard.

I look forward to our visit together, to West Virginia in June.

I think, you know, as we pass the IIJA, we obviously, the longer the delay, the less the money, the supply chain is going up; inflation is going up. Everything is going to cost more.

The Service must play a key role in ensuring those projects are built in a timely manner.

I am pleased to be the lead sponsor along with Senator Reed of the Childhood Cancer STAR Act.