I discussed in my opening statement, Secretary Beers, about the budget including an unprecedented $202 million for the n...
We are very concerned with the new inclusion of additional agencies that would be eligible.
They should be strengthened, they should be made more transparent, and they should be applied very aggressively by all o...
We can't afford to do that if we want to make manufacturing far more competitive.
the American worker we believe should get a preference on the jobs funded by their tax dollars.
By all means Buy America should be a slogan, but I don't think it should be a policy in which we seek to distort free tr...
It is obvious that you have no intention to fully fund the NSC.
This study was conducted over eight years ago when Deep Water was the plan for recapitalizing the aging Coast Guard flee...
The budget again delays the Offshore Patrol Cutter, OPC, with estimates that we will not have an OPC operational until 2...
Your fiscal year 2013 budget includes, as has already been mentioned, $6.1 billion for disasters including over $3 billi...
As you know, I put an emphasis on speed because I feel that the quicker we get construction back, the better communities...
The fiscal year 2013 grant proposal from the department builds on the reforms that this committee implemented back in fi...
There are still staffing shortages across the fire service. And the effect of FIRE and SAFER to improve on that shortage...
The failure is unacceptable to this Subcommittee.
What I would like to do is come back for another round after the vote, so we will suspend for a few minutes for votes.
There are numerous communities in Alabama right now that are waiting for reimbursement. Are there ways to in some way si...
It is imperative that the Coast Guard do the same.
I offered for the record a statement from the Birmingham Water Works Board, which I think is doing very well.
