The Morganza to the Gulf levee protection project is an investment that the citizens of my community have made to build resiliency to the climate crisis.

Our communities, both in Terrebonne and Lafourche Parishes voted to tax themselves to begin building the system.

We have to have the tools, we have to have the processes in place that recognize the urgency of the challenges that we are facing today.

We cannot allow for this slow and expensive process to continue to thwart our efforts to become the more resilient Nation that we should be.

The status quo what we have done historically for decades is absolutely inappropriate, it doesn't properly prioritize.

I found that shocking.

It is imperative that our coastal communities complete this levee protection project, designed when completed to a height of 18 feet.

The reason Arkansas doesn't evacuate when hurricanes come is because they have a buffer. It is called Louisiana.

We have made some of the most substantial investments in resiliency that we have ever made in the United States.

We could cut all emissions from the United States today, every bit of emissions, and we are going to continue to see changes in our weather.

This is so stupid what we are doing.

While CEOs, on average, make 287 times more than those they employ, a minimum wage worker cannot afford a two-bedroom apartment in any corner of our country.

But at the moment, because, you are not actually a full employee, but you are a contract employee, you wear their apparel but do not benefit from that arrangement?

Mr. Alvarez, if I can ask, if you were to be classified as a full employee from XPO, which, if I understand, you wear XPO clothing labeled with XPO, do you not?

More than 130 Americans die every day after overdosing on opioids.

We need to get these drugs off the street. They are coming from China and Mexico; we know it.

The opioid crisis is a symptom of a cultural crisis in our country. We have created--we have allowed to manifest a culture of dependency in America.

According to the DEA, China is the main source of both illicit manufacturing of pure fentanyl as well as the precursors that are being shipped to other countries like Mexico for manufacturing of fentanyl.