As a leading Republican conferee on the highway bill, I continued to make the enactment, the full, final passage and ena...
As you know, no one felt the effects of the Deepwater Horizon disaster more than the citizens of Louisiana.
Treasury should resolve this issue before issuing the final regs.
The Council should also give priority to projects that address multiple criteria as opposed to only one.
I want to stress the importance of refraining from nickel and diming these funds.
the RESTORE Act was a big win, dedicating 80 percent of the Clean Water Act's civil penalties paid by the responsible pa...
I urge the Department of Commerce to read our plan and to start funding some of these important projects that were antic...
The coast of Louisiana is the largest section of land in America that is being eroded.
I felt like it was the most fair thing to direct 80 percent of that penalty back to the Gulf where the accident happened...
To promise additional benefits before you have paid for what you have already promised, it just confirms all the stereot...
It is growing in the number of people that it has to serve. Yet its budget is smaller today than it was 4 years ago.
Social Security? With $2.8 trillion in reserves? Is that a crisis today? No, I would call a federal budget operating def...
We need to watch out for... $300,000,000 that was wasted.
The price of delay gets higher every year, so the sooner we act the better.
Americans want, need, and deserve a Social Security program they can count on and understand.
It will be there for them if we actually make a commitment as a Congress to protect Social Security benefits.
Social Security is facing the biggest challenge since 1983, and the longer we wait the harder it is going to be to fix.
This bill gives the BLM the security to hire the staff and make the investments needed to process oil and gas permits ef...
