We cannot shortchange safety. We need to make sure communities are safe and prepared for extreme weather events amid the worsening climate crisis.

For the sake of our economy as well as our environment, we need to protect and maintain our waterways for wildlife to thrive and for essential transportation to occur.

Fully funding major projects at the beginning results in projects being completed on time and raises the likelihood that projects remain on budget.

Selma is not just a crown jewel of Alabama; it is a crown jewel with historic nature for our entire country.

The United States is being invaded, and I think that is the right word, by 160 different countries, and this administration has done nothing.

I am grateful for both of their leadership in making this a priority.

It is both on time and on budget.

To me too, it's about educating kids at a younger age.

Selma is not just a crown jewel of Alabama; it is a crown jewel with historic nature for our entire country.

Those are sponsored by Republicans. The defund ATF bill is one sentence long. When I raised the question with the gentleman who proposed it in the committee, I said: How in the world is that supposed to work? How would you defund the…

I thank my colleague for yielding. I must say that Police Week, when I was a prosecutor at the Federal level and at the State level, was something I looked forward to. I worked closely with police officers, local, State, and Federal. They…

It is great when we can do things on time. I think it saves money, saves energy, and it is certainly vitally important to the economics of that entire region and beyond.

For the sake of our economy as well as our environment, we need to protect and maintain our waterways for wildlife to thrive and for essential transportation to occur.

Fully funding major projects at the beginning results in projects being completed on time and raises the likelihood that projects remain on budget or potentially, in some cases, under budget.

It ultimately costs the taxpayer more.

The Mobile Harbor Ship Channel, widening and deepening project, which was fully funded at the start by the Federal Government, is both on time and on budget.

It is great when we can do things on time. I think it saves money, saves energy, and it is certainly vitally important to the economics of that entire region and beyond.

Chair Murray and Vice Chair Collins led the Senate Appropriations Committee in public markups, and advanced all 12 bills by July 27.