greatly increases risk to deployed and redeploying forces.

funding for airports needs to be long term, needs to be dependable, and in order to promote certainty and allow for large capital projects and investments.

This is not a bailout bill. It is the American Rescue Plan. It is for all Americans.

we sure have to revive our travel and tourism economy because in Nevada, travel and tourism are essential to our economy.

This idea was introduced by our colleague, Representative Angie Craig, and it is based on very successful Water State Revolving Funds.

I look forward to hearing how Administrator Criswell and her team plan to convert the priorities in the President Biden's Fiscal Year 2022 budget request into measurable improvements in FEMA's administration of emergency assistance…

It is very refreshing to hear you speak so freely about the impacts of climate change as opposed to erasing the term from the website like we saw happen with some agencies under the last administration.

Maybe we should all go down there on a field trip for this committee.

The apparent inconsistencies and inequities for disaster survivors seeking help are frustrating.

We already know, and as Chairman DeFazio pointed out, the demand is great for State, local, Tribal, and Territorial governments to invest in infrastructure projects to mitigate some of these known and predictable threats that arise from…

H.R. 539 ensures that at the very least, disaster victims don't pay the price for FEMA's errors.

While the agency has accomplished much since March 2020--including helping state, local, tribal, and territorial partners fully vaccinate more than one hundred and fifty million Americans since January of this year--many of the problems…

We must build back better, not continue to make the same mistakes because it may be easier or cheaper in the short-term.

Survivors who have lost literally everything should not have to go through a rigmarole to try to prove eligibility for often meager FEMA assistance.

China is committed to expanding its global reach through increasing trade and foreign investment around the world.

Middle mile is absolutely critical to rural America.

I guess my question is, is there a role for a public-private partnership in trade?

Do you think that reengaging in the existing multilateral framework such as the CPTPP and the RCEP would be sufficient enough alone to meet our expectations going forward in terms of labor, environment, and digital protection?