Unfortunately, like most of our infrastructure, our water resources are aging and in great need of repair and upgrading.

Today's first Transportation and Infrastructure Subcommittee hearing is on a subject that is very important to Nation, including my home State of Oklahoma.

That has been a problem, Montgomery buoy to lock and dam and the depth issue, for a long, long time.

I think that is good. There is not time to give the examples that are out there but it is a bureaucratic problem.

In Oklahoma, we know these benefits firsthand with ports along the McClellan-Kerr-Arkansas Navigation System connecting Oklahoma with the Mississippi River and with the rest of the world.

That statement does not fit those circumstances, however.

U.S. Corps of Engineers projects generate over $109 billion annually in economic benefits and generate over $34 billion in revenue to the United States Treasury.

I think it is important that the public knows these conversations are taking place.

Mr. President, I would like to recognize Thursday, May 4, as Waste Management National Career Day and share with you the importance of hiring and promoting women in nontraditional female positions as drivers and technicians. I believe it…

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On May 4, 2017, President Trump issued an Executive Order to direct the Attorney General to issue guidance interpreting religious liberty protections in Federal law.

When I was Chairman for a number of years of a committee called the Environment and Public Works, where all the over-regulations came--and most of them were EPA regulations.

I think that a lot of these rulemakings are well intentioned, but they end up tying our hands and costing consumers more.

I mean, this idea that you have to be forced to do these things--you're the guy that pays for all this stuff.

Mr. Speaker, by direction of the Committee on Rules, I call up House Resolution 305 and ask for its immediate consideration. The Clerk read the resolution, as follows: H. Res. 305 Resolved, That upon adoption of this resolution it shall be…

You've got to make those considerations.

Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. To respond to a few of my friend's points, Mr. Speaker, I want to begin by agreeing with my friend, actually. As he knows, I agree with his point that this should have been done many…

Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. I want to thank my good friend. It is always a pleasure, honestly, to engage in debate with him because it is going to be spirited, but it is going to be civil. So I thank my friend…