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Chairman Thune, your long-time friendship and support at the Federal level is deeply appreciated.

The Asian carp has become an emerging threat to not only our rivers and lakes, but literally, as pointed out earlier, the physical safety of boaters.

The more we make flood insurance to be a normal insurance product, something that people just get or their insurance agent asks them, 'Do you want this?' we are going to get more people covered.

I agree with you that the reauthorization is critical and that it should be timely and that it should be one that runs over a period of years.

I am wondering if the National Flood Insurance Program should perhaps take a look at either increasing the total amount of structure coverage.

These transportation safety issues have been and will continue to be a major focus of this committee.

The Commerce Committee's work accounted for almost half of the 500 or so pages in that final bill.

Senators Wicker and Booker formed a team to reauthorize rail safety programs.

Senator Fischer was key to the reforms in the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration.

We also have seen a disturbing trend in recent years whereby some of our trading partners have ignored their international commitments, particularly with respect to intellectual property protection.

Helping our companies expand their ability to compete and tap into foreign markets, as I said earlier, is critical.

I cannot emphasize enough the importance of agriculture. As you start looking at what we are going to do in the place of TPP and how you are going to approach NAFTA, I hope you will keep that issue as a very, very high priority.

I cannot emphasize enough, representing a State where agriculture is our number-one industry, that agricultural trade must be at or near the top of your trade agenda.

The reality is that we cannot go to war without women anymore, can we?

Cyber capabilities are critical when it comes to your operations as well.

It is clear the world is not any safer now than it was in 2014.

The Department of Homeland Security, which is charged with protecting critical infrastructure, defines it as the assets, systems, and networks, whether physical or virtual, so vital to the United States that their incapacitation or…

Our ability to project military power is increasingly tied to our commercial air segment, blurring the lines between military and nonmilitary organizations required for national defense.