defazio has been leading on. this bill includes a five year, $110 billion authorization for highway, roads, and bridges. $39 billion for transit. $55 billion in water infrastructure. to literally get the lead out and make our water safe to drink. calls for making our electricity grid more resilient and reliable. which we included in make it in america. this bill invests $78 billion to do exactly that and creates new grid deployment authority. a new grid deployment authority to promote innovation and smart grid technologies. that's about our national security. that is a national security demand on us. in the make it in america agenda we challenge congress to promote a modern energy infrastructure that reduces waste and incentives, storage -- incentivize storage and alternative forms of energy for vehicles. that's what mr. defazio did in the bill that we passed. and it is not as well, i think, but that's what's in this bill. the $7.5 billion included in this legislation for building electric vehicle charging infras

defazio: am i recognized? the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. defazio: ok. thank you. i yield myself five minutes. americans are tired of potholes damaging their cars, failing bridges, trails that derail, water mains that explode, sewer systems that back up into their basements and pollute our rivers. more than 70% of americans strongly support a major federal investment in rebuilding our crumbling infrastructure. the last major increase in federal support for infrastructure was during the clinton administration's first term. the first term of the clinton administration. then, president bush did nothing on the issue. president obama came in talking about infrastructure investment. he passed the american recovery act that invested 4% of all that money in infrastructure. i worked with chairman jim oberstar. i chaired the subcommittee. we wrote a very ambitious surface transportation re-authorization which he had been promised by the obama administration would be next. they pulled the plug. and then came president trump, the builder. he invited a large group of

defazio -- has 13 1/2 minutes. mr. defazio: i yield myself two minutes. this is the green new deal bill? it includes rodney davis' proposal that guts the nepa process, that's not a green new deal priority. it cut dramatically the investments in the house bill in transit. and rail. not exactly the green new deal priority. i mean that is an absurd -- you want to drag out the chimera, ohing look, it's the green new deal. it's do not it was written three 10 republican senators and two conservative democrats coming from the senate side which is not in my opinion doing near enough to address climate change impacts from fossil fuel pollution, transportation, our largest contributor. now of course on your side of the aisle, climate change doesn't exist. you want to have -- to build resilience. why do you need resilience? why is the sea level rising? why are we having incredible, unprecedented severe weather events or like the heat dome in oregon where people die? why are we having these things? it's just a natural occurrence like the ice age or whatever. it's do

defazio -- has 13 1/2 minutes. mr. defazio: i yield myself two minutes. this is the green new deal bill? it includes rodney davis' proposal that guts the nepa process, that's not a green new deal priority. it cut dramatically the investments in the house bill in transit. and rail. not exactly the green new deal priority. i mean that is an absurd -- you want to drag out the chimera, ohing look, it's the green new deal. it's do not it was written three 10 republican senators and two conservative democrats coming from the senate side which is not in my opinion doing near enough to address climate change impacts from fossil fuel pollution, transportation, our largest contributor. now of course on your side of the aisle, climate change doesn't exist. you want to have -- to build resilience. why do you need resilience? why is the sea level rising? why are we having incredible, unprecedented severe weather events or like the heat dome in oregon where people die? why are we having these things? it's just a natural occurrence like the ice age or whatever. it's do

defazio -- has 13 1/2 minutes. mr. defazio: i yield myself two minutes. this is the green new deal bill? it includes rodney davis' proposal that guts the nepa process, that's not a green new deal priority. it cut dramatically the investments in the house bill in transit. and rail. not exactly the green new deal priority. i mean that is an absurd -- you want to drag out the chimera, ohing look, it's the green new deal. it's do not it was written three 10 republican senators and two conservative democrats coming from the senate side which is not in my opinion doing near enough to address climate change impacts from fossil fuel pollution, transportation, our largest contributor. now of course on your side of the aisle, climate change doesn't exist. you want to have -- to build resilience. why do you need resilience? why is the sea level rising? why are we having incredible, unprecedented severe weather events or like the heat dome in oregon where people die? why are we having these things? it's just a natural occurrence like the ice age or whatever. it's do

defazio of oregon, p-rpbt to h. res. 8, mr. defazio will vote yes. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlewoman from indiana seek recognition? mrs.walorski: as the member designated by mrs. wagner, pursuant to h. res. 8, i inform the house that mrs. wagner votes nay. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from new york seek recognition? mr.tonko: as the member designated by representative morelle, i inform the house that representative morelle will vote aye on the langevin amendment. as the member designated by representative higgins pursuant to h. res. 8, i inform the house that representative higgins will vote aye. >> as the member designated by mr. russ fulcher of idaho, pursuant to h. res. 8, i inform the house that mr. fulcher will vote no on the langevin amendment number 42. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from california seek recognition? mr. thompson: as the member designated by mr. desaulnier, pursuant to h. res. 8, i inform the house that mr. desaulnier will vote yes on th

thank you, chair defazio. for the end stage of nextgen, and the dynamic capabilities, we will be looking at advanced aircraft on the ground. and specific time bass illusions. there are three nautical mile separations. and this is below flight level zero where wasn't available before. in 2019, the faa approved reduce separation standards on the five not four miles to three nautical miles at a below flight level to two three zero at the aircraft. in 2020, the mile separation was successfully deployed and you indicated moving forward, in response to section five for seven, of 2018 the reauthorization, we will be initiating next dan equipage to utilize the three nautical mile separation for select sectors within oakland air traffic control center to provide operational access, flight efficiency for the bay area. and that will run for a period of two years. we will be assessing that and then looking for opportunities to do the same thing across the country. >> i guess the question would be why does it take -- why d

chair defazio. so for the end-state of nextgen and dynamic capabilities will we use advanced aircraft and ground automation to enable our flight specific timebase solutions. we began utilizing ads-b to enable three nautical mile separation standards in the in route airspace at of the low flight level two through zero where it was inevitably four. in 2019 the faa approved reduced separation standards from the five nautical miles to three nautical miles at or below flight level 2304 those with equipped aircraft. in 2020 to three nautical mile separation was successfully deployed at two key sites as you indicated seattle and boston. so moving forward in response to section 547 from the 2018 reauthorization we will be initiating three nextgen equipage equip page trials to utilize the three nautical mile separation for select -- within oakland, air traffic control center to provide operational access flight deficiencies and airspace for the bay area, and that will run for a time of two years. we will be

defazio has been leading on. this bill includes a five year, $110 billion authorization for highway, roads, and bridges. $39 billion for transit. $55 billion in water infrastructure. to literally get the lead out and make our water safe to drink. calls for making our electricity grid more resilient and reliable. which we included in make it in america. this bill invests $78 billion to do exactly that and creates new grid deployment authority. a new grid deployment authority to promote innovation and smart grid technologies. that's about our national security. that is a national security demand on us. in the make it in america agenda we challenge congress to promote a modern energy infrastructure that reduces waste and incentives, storage -- incentivize storage and alternative forms of energy for vehicles. that's what mr. defazio did in the bill that we passed. and it is not as well, i think, but that's what's in this bill. the $7.5 billion included in this legislation for building electric vehicle charging infras

defazio pursuant to h. res. 8, i inform the house that mr. defazio will vote yes on the amendment. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from ohio seek recognition? >> as the member designated by mr. russ fulcher of idaho, pursuant to h. res. 8, i inform the house that mr. fulcher will vote nay on amendment number 26. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from california seek recognition? >> as the member designated by mr. stanton, pursuant to h. res. 8, i inform the house that mr. stanton will vote yes on the amendment. as the member designated by mrs. res. 8, i inform the house that mrs. kirkpatrick will votey on the amendment. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from illinois seek recognition? >> as the member designated by mr. grijalva pursuant to h. res. 8, i inform the house that mr. grijalva will vote yes on the amendment. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from michigan seek recognition? >> as the member designated by mr. latta of ohio, pursuant to house resolution 8, i inform t

thank you, chair defazio. so for the end state of nextgen, and dynamic tbo capabilities, we will use that advanced aircraft and ground automation to enable our flight specific time-based solutions. we began utilizing adsb to enable three nautical miles separation standards in the route airspace at or below flight 230 where it wasn't available before. in 2019, the faa approved reduced separation standard from the five nautical miles to three nautical miles at or below flight level 230 for those outer equipped airspace. in 2020, it was successfully deployed at two key sites, as you indicated, seattle and boston. moving forward in response to section 547 from the 2018 reauthorization, we will be initiating three nextgen equipage trials to utilize the three nautical mile separation for select and route sectors within oakland, air traffic control center, to provide operational access, flight efficiencies, and airspace for the bay area. and that will run for a period of two years. we'll be assessing that, and then w

defazio: am i recognized? the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. defazio: ok. thank you. i yield myself five minutes. americans are tired of potholes damaging their cars, failing bridges, trails that derail, water mains that explode, sewer systems that back up into their basements and pollute our rivers. more than 70% of americans strongly support a

defazio: i yield one minute to the speaker of the house, the gentlelady from california, ms. nancy pelosi. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady is recognized. the speaker: i thank the gentleman for yielding and more

that's what one of the longest serving house democrats transportation chairman peter defazio is callingcapitol hill right now. all at once democrats are trying to pass the bipartisan infrastructure bill, the $3.5 trillion spending bill, fund the government and raise the debt limit. oh, and you've got just about nine days to get it all done. nbc's sahil kapur is on the hill and i want to bring in the co-founder of punchbowl news john brez any hand. can you walk us through all of these moving parts. >> reporter: the bill is currently in a trimming phase at this moment, i think we can call it that safely. the committees have finished up their work, it's in the hands of president biden as well as speaker nancy pelosi and senate majority leader chuck schumer. pelosi put her members on notice that a number of things are going to happen. they will come up with a top line number that can pass the senate before they put it on the floor of the house. she made clear that that could be $3.5 trillion but it could also be less than that. it is almost certainly going to be less than that. she also put

i will yield my time to chairman defazio. >> i thank the gentlelady. ms. nelson i think it would be helpful to respond to mr. perry's statements on things like the pullman strike and other union organizers attempting to advocate for a decent life. i will yield time for you to respond if you would like. >> they were assaulted for trying to fight for health care the ability for workers to going to work space without using -- because they push so hard against machinery that they can't compete. the ludlow strikers were struck down burnt to death pushed out of company housing. there were workers who were disrespected in the mules that were carrying the coal out of thee minds were more important than the workers. this past year in the past 18 months we so workers are treated as disposable. the strike and the absence of return is that about safety and improving the safety for consumers and certainly as flight attendant and pilots and anyone working in aviation we take very personally when any blood is shed and we said during the government shutdown that are worse

defazio. representative defazio: incidents are down 50%. they are still twice the level of last year. and minimizing a flight attendant who gets her teeth knocked out by some jerk who tries to open the exit door, or crash into the cockpit. the faa is dragging its feet on secondary barriers we mandated a number of years ago, but that is for another day. but it is still too high. zero-tolerance and publicized fines have had an impact, but we need more prosecutions when there are serious violent incidents on airplanes. there needs to be more cooperation between the airlines, airports, local police and federal authorities. i hope we can engender that. i have flown 8 million miles, i have been doing this a long time , until recently, i never saw a big sign at the airport saying alcohol to go in cops. that has got to stop. it is illegal to bring your own alcohol onto a plane, but how are you going to tell? is it coffee, soda, what is it? the airports need to crack down on these vendors, or we need to find a way to induce airports to crack down on

i want to also acknowledge that our chairman leader defazio of the infrastructure committee has in his bill like many of you worked on emphasize building back in a green way. and that the congresswoman charisse david is on that committee bringing the perspective not only of her district but of tribal communities that are so essential to the judgments that we make when we're talking about water and building and all the rest. so we have the beautiful diversity of thinking geographically, generationally, initially in every possible way and we will achieve what we need to do because it's absolutely necessary. what's our goal? our goal is to pass this legislation andmeet the standards that we have . 100 percent by 2050. what is our purpose? to do so in a way that is a model for the world. we fully intend to do it and we couldn't do it without the leadership of our colleagues. but also the outside mobilizing so thank you again for being here. so many other groups downstairs and i called them. thank you to yourorganization but also to your volunteers . in this as in every other thing we do ou

here is how pete defazio who was first elected in the reagan years, summed up the situation in congressc news. i've been here for cliffs and crises and wars, and this is going to be the biggest mashup we have had since i've been here. with the debt limit, with the government shutdown, with reconciliation, and with infrastructure. and i have no idea how it all works out. this afternoon democrats trying to address the two most urgent deadlines that face this congress with legislation to avoid a government shutdown at the end of this month and a debt default that's scheduled to potentially happen at the end of next month, but republicans are signaling they're going to block it. so what's the plan b? unclear. >> what is the plan b? >> i'm not going to let them off the hook. >> well, the plan b is there's no plan b. you've got to pay your bills. this doesn't acquire debt, this is about paying your bills or not. we go through this dance all the time and it's a dance that's very, very dangerous and in the end everybody i serve with understands that this could be catastrophic if we don't -- if

i'd like to thank speaker pelosi and chairs nadler, maloney, yarmuth, meeks, defazio and delauro for their invaluable partnership in pushing our democracy agenda forward. many of my colleagues initiated concepts in this bill through legislation of their own and have championed these issues that are so near and dear to the heart of our democracy. and i'd also like to thank the white house for engaging with us, for offering their feedback and making this a better bill. and with that, let me invite chairman nadler to the podium. mr. nadler: thank you very much. i want to begin by thanking speaker pelosi, chairman schiff, and the other distinguished chairs for their leadership in putting together the critical set of reforms contained in the protecting our democracy act. transparency and accountability are the bedrock of our democratic system. they are the essential guardrails that protect against unchecked executive power. recent experiences uncovered weaknesses that point to the desperate need for reform in these areas. although many of these areas -- although many of these reforms were

. >> laverne defazio and shirley feeney. >> gary marshal said we got this part on happy days.ie and richie. >> and a hanky. is that for showing? or for blowing? >> they were incredibly, individually funny. >> is anybody upstairs gonna run down and call me a nasty name? >> and then, gary got the idea to spin them off into their own series. >> laverne and shirley. >> my jesus and my beatles was laverne and shirley. >> everyone identified with laverne and shirley because we were best friends. >> and just the opening song. who didn't love that? >> laverne and shirley is about two working-class girls who struggle to make ends meet. working at a brewery. going out at night. >> and, you know, really so nice to see two women at the center of a sitcom. >> laverne and shirley, through the lens of the '50s, were able to say a lot about what women were striving to accomplish in the '70s. >> women were more apt to want to go out and work. and not get married right after high school. >> well, have fun down at unemployment. >> i'll meet guys. >> unemployed guys. >> shirley is the quintessent

i want to especially thank chairman peter defazio of the transportation and infrastructure committee for taking up this request from our bipartisan house great lakes task force. as co-chair of the appropriations subcommittee on energy and water, our members delivered the funding bill necessary to turbocharge investments in coastal resiliency across our country. in home weatherization programs as climate changes from coast-to-coast. to modernize the s the sue lock to focus on next generation energy, solar energy technology, and technologies we are inventing in hydrogen, in various types of thermal water technologies. there is so much where america will lead the world in inventions for the future. to succeed, we have to make sure these investments make it through this congress and that infrastructure investment makes it to president biden's desk. old infrastructure is crumbling as our climate is changing, we are running out of time. we know that a functions system between lake superior and the rest of the great lakes, for example, supports 11 million jobs. and we know clean energy tech

oregon congressman peter defazio, he's been in office almost 35 years, told my colleague sahil kapur,and wars and this is going to be the biggest mash-up i've ever seen since i've been here. joining me now, dan kildee. he's the chief democratic whip and sits on the budget and ways and means committees. good to see you. how you? >> i'm doing great, chris. thanks. >> talk to me about how you see where we are right now, congressman. because it's -- i keep using the word daunting this hour. but there is so much going on. there's clearly a split between moderates and more progressives in congress. what can and should the president do today when he meets with some of the members of the caucus to get this thing moving in a direction that gets it done? >> i think the message has to be really clear, doing nothing, not an option. and of course, defaulting on our bills, no way is that an option. we have to keep the government open. the hope i have is that this conversation can be focused on finding the boldest common denominator among democrats. clearly, republicans have taken themselves out of

the white house is going to have to be the leader here, not schumer, not pelosi, not pete defazio.'s going to have to be joe biden. are they ready to figure out how to get manchin and sanders come together? >> based on what's going on in the white house, this is what they're going to have to focus on in september. august was an ugly month. there were so many different challenges, but september can be even worse because you'll have to have the president on the phone with his own party saying we need to get on the same page when it comes to this reconciliation bill. there is this idea of a climate change having come to the front door of the east and the west. fires on one side of the country, floods in new jersey, the idea that the more people died of the storm in new jersey than in other parts of the country really, i think, scares some people into saying, we need to be taking action in congress to deal with this. this is going to be on joe biden. he ran on the idea that he could bring people together, he ran on the idea that i know these people, i've been three decades in congress,

this is peter defazio, one of her deputies in the house, been in congress since 1987. i've been here for cliffs, crises and war and this will be the biggest mash-up we've ever had and i have no idea how it works out, no idea. that's it. >> they took a lot of pieces that have -- that don't have total unity, but they have got oh, this is 48% of our caucus -- 48% of congress will support this, 47%, and they tried to build them all together giving somebody something. you get infrastructure, roads and bridges. you get stuff on climate change, you get stuff on taxes, but if you start pulling those pieces out because people just say, well, look, i'm not going to vote prescription hits because i have a lot of big pharma in my districts all of a sudden the whole thing collapses. it becomes a jenga set in which you pull two pieces out and the whole thing goes under. >> quick pause. we'll go up to the united nations. the president of the united states is having a bilateral meeting with the prime minister of australia. >> this will be a good in-person meeting. the united states ha

i want to put up something that congressman peter defazio, the house transportation chairman said.n by those 12 rump senators who are all pro-fossil--fuel does virtually nothing to reduce transmissions." he speaks for mainstream progressives who are not happy with the infrastructure bill on its own. that is a disconnect. one interesting piece of news last night, stephanie, senator kerstin sinema, a centrist democrat, spoke to her home state paper, the arizona republic, and said she's particularly excited about the climate change provisions in reconciliation, that arizona has suffered the effects of the climate crisis, including droughts and wildfires and shrinking lakes, and she wants to address that. how this moves forward is unclear. that bill in the house of representatives, that infrastructure bill, does not appear to have the votes to pass at least the progressive caucus chair, pramila jayapal's whip count is to be believed. as is, this bill looks like sst it's going down. >> quickly, i know i'm how far time. >> what happens between now and monday? any chance democrats are wor

i will end with this, congressman peter defazio who is the transportation committee chairman in the houses that the speaker is aggressively working the phones, he says his phone rings at all hours of the night including late at night when he's working on his reconciliation package. he also said this could be speaker pelosi's toughest challenge, tougher than that task a decade ago when she had to get the affordable care act over the finish line. she is in legacy mode now trying to rewrite the safety net, the social contract for potentially generations to come. >> senator mccaskill, i will give you the last word. the goal was to finish all of this in the fall. could you imagine a scenario in which we are sitting around on christmas eve with one giant policy cliff of trying to finish this at the end of this year much delayed like the aca process was? >> yeah, it may happen. i mean, you know, this is devolved into one of these typical how long is it going to take, how close to midnight will we be? i think i want to make -- i want to make this point about joe manchin, joe manchin is going to h

defazio: ok. thank you. i yield myself five minutes. americans are tired of potholes damaging their cars, failing bridges, trails that derail, water mains that explode, sewer systems that back up into their basements and pollute our rivers. more than 70% of americans strongly support a major federal investment in rebuilding our crumbling infrastructure. the last major increase in federal support for infrastructure was during the

my amendment, which i am honored to be joint by representatives khanna, defazio, schakowsky, talib, levin, cohen and ritchie torres is the fundamental next step towards breaking that cycle. this is a question of war and peace that should be answered with a recorded vote in congress. this amendment does not take a position on substantive syrian policy questions. it merely requires this body to follow the constitution and hold a debate and vote to authorize military action. i hope that my colleagues will agree that our troops and the american people deserve to see this body and hold that debate and then cast their votes. under the last administration, president trump made it clear that u.s. military troops in syria was there to secure the oil. but an explicit authorization from congress was never obtained for that purpose. i disagree with claims that the 2001 aumf, which was about responding to the september 11 attacks, authorized our troops to engage in hostilities against these forces which nobody argues had anything to do with those attacks or to guard oil fields. my colleagues who belie