Absolutely, we support it. Thank you for your support. And we want to keep working with this committee to address this problem. Excellent. Very helpful. Mr. Gilbertson. The Department of Transportation under Biden added both DEI and Climate Change related criteria to the grant approval process which Congress did not include in the authorizing statutes. For example, the Biden DOT thought of the Consolidated Rail Infrastructure Safety Improvement or Crissy grant as a program to, quote, explicitly address climate change, gender equity and racial equity and scored applications based on how well the applicant met these criteria. (01:36–01:49)
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