The FAST Act is a good example. We did the FAST Act primarily because of that permitting reform.

I would like to have you elaborate on your feelings how successful this could be.

And 25 years ago, we made a decision that 50/50 was arbitrary and we were going to figure out some way to be more sophisticated.

The problem with the National Disaster Recovery Framework is it may be a plan without authorities given to the agencies that are truly in charge of things like power or housing.

We can help get the information out to the different committees.

We need to continue to be able to use those faith-based and nongovernmental groups to be able to partner with them.

If FEMA engaged in it, they are going to get a response back in 30 to 45 days. It is going to be very rapid to be able to help them turn around a check.

A big gain that we can have from this... is lessons learned and things that can change in the future.

We have to be able to find a way to either debate that and fix that or to be able to change your authorities.

I want to give you another thank you for how you are working through with houses of worship.

What we need to be able to have is the ability to be able to see these are the issues and to be able to get them out to the right committees to be able to make some of the decisions that need to be made.

all States are equal under the Constitution, but they are not equal in terms of their economic impact

Those, as my colleague suggested, are extraordinarily important and particularly in the Tribal areas.

I want to first thank you and the President for getting us out of the Paris climate accord.

I would just ask you and your office to put some attention to that.

we are going to probably always be pretty aggressive at pushing back in cuts in those areas.

I have one other point to make first.

We have a President who is against fossil fuels, coal, oil, and gas, and yet that is accountable for 80 percent of the energy it takes to run this machine called America.