Cynthia Lummis

The previous Administration understood the importance of this mission and how the changing nature of the space industry necessitated moving some of this responsibility away from the Department of Defense.

There must be a bigger push to prevent debris in the first place and, more importantly, in my opinion, to take out the trash or de-orbit space junk.

The fact is the space around earth is becoming congested and the problem's only going to grow.

More than just tracking and managing orbital debris, we must look for ways to prevent it in the first place.

One of my major concerns and several of my colleagues' major concerns is that it's taking a lot of time for the Department of Commerce to set up the Open Architecture Data Repository.

It's just great to be Ranking Member on this subcommittee. The space sector is evolving so quickly.

If we build a central bank digital currency in the right way, we can strengthen the global role of the U.S. dollar.

Any U.S. CBDC should have greater privacy, even the same or greater than physical cash today.

We in the United States have a very different approach to economic privacy. We have a Fourth Amendment.

I really appreciate you doing this hearing. It is an important subject, so we can highlight the transit needs for rural America in addition to urban America.

I have heard that the Bus Formula program may not be providing the type of support that rural areas need.

So, do you think that a statutory response is warranted here?

Do you consider some of these practices to be anti-competitive?

I do not want to further burden them with paying for the infrastructure we are using today.

I am also concerned about suggestions that Congress could use corporate taxes or even a carbon tax to fund infrastructure.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. It is a great hearing. Thank you for doing it.

Right now, it is a trust fund that we can't actually trust.

Is there a user fee model out there that we could apply to mass transportation so highway users are not subsidizing mass transportation?

User fees have different qualities than general taxes, primarily that the user is able to see the direct benefits of those fees.

Finding a long-term, reliable funding source for the Highway Trust Fund must be the top priority as we work on an infrastructure bill.

Wastewater, clean drinking water, safe drinking water are important to all of us, of course, Democrat, Republican, rich and poor, in rural and urban areas.

I hope the Administration will really look at a reset, you know, as it relates to tariffs.

Innovation is also an important part of solving the digital divide, but with the importance of getting reliable connections to communities and the huge expense of doing so, do you believe Federal funding should be going to broadband…

So my fellow Senator Kyrsten Sinema and I are forming a Financial Innovations Caucus to make sure that these kinds of innovations that tend to level the playing field and take the layers out between money and the people who earned it is…

I also want to say that the name of today's hearing is 'Wall Street vs. Workers', but a better name might have been 'How Wall Street Can Help Workers'