We certainly do need to get back to that level of safety, or, as I said before, even better.

There's a difference between learning hard truths about where we have fallen short or needing to improve and undermining a system that has kept billions of people safe over the years.

depending on the type of resilience project, the estimates range from $3 to $11 in societal benefits for every $1 invested in resilience.

Thank you, Madam Chair. And, Madam Chair, I want to thank you once again for holding this hearing.

We created the coordinating entity at the state level, and we blew up parts of five state agencies.

With that reality, it's necessary that communities have the tools they need to adapt to safely live by water.

The role of federal assistance in recovery should not be overlooked.

The long delays in moving funds from the federal government to communities and citizens in need of help.

It is unacceptable that states are exposing its citizens to danger by ignoring the realities of climate resilience.

Substantial time and effort is spent considering what do we fund locally and what is too large to fund locally.

Madam Chair, I thank the gentleman from Utah for yielding. Madam Chair, I was sitting in my office in a meeting and looked up at the TV screen on C-SPAN, and I watched our distinguished chairman put up a chart that said that for every $1…

If you gave $550 million to an administration you knew that was corrupt, what happens between 2018 and 2019, besides you being scared to death of your next political opponent?

I've heard Republicans say, why are we rushing to judgment? This is not a rush to judgment. It's a rush to justice. And we must not delay. Corruption is corrosive.

The Constitution does vest the President with certain powers, but not the power to lie, not the power to obstruct, not the power to cheat our democracy, not the power to threaten our security, there is no question that the President has…

President Trump, on January 20, 2015, you raised your hand and swore to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution. Now we must preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution from you.

Now we must preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution from you.

Well, he is shooting holes in our Constitution on Pennsylvania Avenue.

Some people say 'quid pro quo.' Some people translate into the American definition of 'a this for a that.'