I am not advocating doing away with flood control, but it is actually flood control over the centuries and decades that has caused the absence of sediment and the loss of land, is that correct?

OK, so it is your hope that the President's infrastructure plan... that $1 trillion infrastructure plan will be the third step in getting us where we need to be to meet our needs?

We are going to have to come together across the aisle on ways that we can streamline the permitting processes.

If we take your recommendation and restore--and restore over a 10 year period the full use of these revenues, will that get us where we need to be in terms of meeting our funding needs?

Walls are no panacea for our border security challenges.

This latest effort to use DREAMers as a bargaining chip to fulfill President Trump's fantasy of a closed immigration system and an unnecessary border wall is a new low for this administration.

Spending billions on a boondoggle border wall to fulfill a campaign promise is a terrible use of American taxpayer money and bad border policy.

Why would we spend billions on a wall in the desert while leaving our ports of entry vulnerable to human smugglers and drug traffickers?

Rather than pursue the truth on behalf of the American people, House Republicans have waged an aggressive campaign to shut down Congressional and criminal investigations into Russia's attack.

House Republicans have chosen to put President Trump ahead of our National interests.

I am pleased to commend Maj. Matthew W. Taylor, USAF, for his dedication to duty and service as an Air Force legislative fellow. Matt, a special operations pilot, was recently selected to be the assistant to the Vice Commander of the…

AI, according to your testimony, is only as good as the data the system receives.

I thank the gentlewoman for yielding. Mr. Speaker, I represent the Second District of Mississippi. I would like to pay tribute to those four Historically Black Colleges that reside in the Second District, but before I do, I want to, for…

Most of the panel, if not all the panel, seems to think we lead the world, it's just a question of whether we're going to continue leading the world.

Dr. Bethel, you are doing practical applications on high-risk law enforcement situations, autonomous cargo transfer, and animal-assisted therapy. Do you receive Federal research dollars for that? And to what extent?

Well, I would like to thank everyone who has participated.

But whether that attack is made today or Valentine's Day next year, an artificial intelligence system might make that decision.

Can you commit to me that the Navy will take advantage of the incremental funding authority in NDAA?