This is I think frustrating for us.

We would like to know on our committee if you can get us an answer.

I mean, how is that acceptable?

And lastly, you mentioned in your statement, Lieutenant General Semonite, that the budget gives priority to coastal ports with high levels of commercial traffic.

Are we really not funding non-CERP projects under the Corps construction account at all?

I think that if the United States is not liable, then the private actor will be liable, so whoever is damaged will be made whole by bringing a suit against the actual causer of the damage just like in the rest of life.

What criteria was used in crafting the amounts allocated in this budget? Because I can tell you right now, $420,000 is sorely insufficient for the operation and maintenance of such a vital port like Port Everglades.

It is critical to our region that the Port Everglades Channel is widened and deepened.

The news just broke this afternoon that two years after the fact the IRS has located almost 7,000 documents that are related to the targeting of conservative groups.

I think he did take the pulse and I think he knew that they wanted a staunch conservative bill, nothing that was negotiable.

Mr. Speaker, my father, James LeRoy Butler, worked as a janitor. He had a fifth grade education, and now his youngest child is a Member of the 115th Congress. My father worked hard, and his word was his bond. On January 15, 2017, President…

It is a good thing. But something that I think that's been overlooked is the Paul Ryan plan.

I have tremendous respect for women and the many roles they serve that are vital to the fabric of our society and our economy.

One of the things that is not being looked at right now is that lower schedule, that Lake Okeechobee regulation schedule, it is one of the most important things that could be looked at because as every one of those 60-plus projects of…

I am here to advocate on behalf of robust funding to for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers...

These toxins that are released by the algal blooms, they hurt people through air and water...

Army Corps is reluctant to marry their flood control mission at Lake Okeechobee with their ecological restoration mission in the Everglades.

When it is not prioritized in that way, we end up causing damage to both ecosystems.