The Corps has been laughably underfunded for decades, leading to a $100 billion backlog of projects.
Since 2014, this committee has been successful in enacting four consecutive, bipartisan WRDA bills.
The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law provided over $17 billion dollars to the Corps.
WRDA is an opportunity to reauthorize new projects and to continue to modernize the Corps of Engineers, ensuring equity and justice are cent...
The construction of The Dalles, Bonneville, and other lower Columbia River dams beginning in the 1930s inundated and destroyed villages wher...
We must also work with the Corps to ensure the agency is taking full advantage of existing programs, authorities, and operations to leverage...
Thank you, Madam Chair.
I want to directly thank the men and women of the Capitol Police Force for their heroism on January 6th.
Thank you very much, Madam Chair. Thank you, Chief Manger, for your leadership and efforts to implement the recommendations.
I hope that we can put some of the divisiveness away. I was not encouraged by the markup we had on this bill.
America needs us. I think we should try to rise to the highest expectations of the American people.
I agree with you that we need to make sure that public resources invested in private infrastructure achieve a public benefit.
And I was keeping faith with President Biden. I don't think there has been anyone in Government ever in the history of this country that has...
I do believe in a national system, so I have listened keenly to the concerns of the Southern Rail Commission, and my partners in the Midwest...
The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) is a major victory for the American people, making the largest-ever single investment in A...
Because when I voted for the transportation and infrastructure bill, I felt I was keeping faith with my railroad workers, and I was keeping ...
And I was keeping faith with my environmental activists, because they see rail and the future of rail as being one of the solutions, as a cl...
The IIJA is revolutionary, providing guaranteed and robust funding levels over the next five years.
