It is also imperative that we continue to make improvements to the functioning of the Corps.

This means thousands upon thousands of jobs are completely reliant on making sure that the types of authorizations and expenditures we are talking about today are considered and made expeditiously.

The Federal Government has an obligation to secure the homeland and protect the United States and its citizens from those who seek to do us harm.

Madam Speaker, I look at the nutria, and I have to disagree with my friend from California. I feel like I see swamp rats on the floor all the time. But I do appreciate him bringing the actual species here to help folks understand what it…

We have to think about those small things as well as the big things.

I respectfully ask that you incorporate approximately 1.5 miles of levee in Shreveport, Louisiana into the Red River Below Denison Dam Project.

My legislation would provide a clean reauthorization for the pilot programs for fiscal year 2021 and through fiscal year 2025.

I respectfully ask that the committee incorporate approximately 1.5 miles of levee in Shreveport, Louisiana, into the Red River Below Denison Dam project.

I respectfully ask that you keep in mind two priorities in particular.

Coastal Louisiana leads the Nation in waterborne commerce.

Twenty percent of the Nation's waterborne commerce travels through Louisiana waters.

The importance of these waterways and management systems to Louisiana and the entire Nation cannot be underestimated.

As a Representative for Louisiana's Third Congressional District, I would like to thank you all for your continued focus on the health of our Nation's waterways.

I am profoundly sorry for the harassment that you experienced.

Their direct and continued engagement is critical for further progress on this issue.

I want to know what more Congress and the courts need to do.

The more than 30,000 women and men who work for our Federal courts have a right to a workplace free from sexual harassment, discrimination, isolation, and retaliation.

I can assure the witnesses and those who are following this hearing that diversity on the bench, diversity on the pipeline, or in the pipeline to the bench in terms of clerks, and also diversity in law school admissions in the universities…