It is long past time for DHS and GSA to take responsibility at St. Elizabeths.
This will make it more efficient.
There could have been significant cost reductions there if we did not have to wait for the years and years that it took to get the permittin...
What about quick access to water supply or replacement of bridges, of roads that we are running into?
We certainly want our environment to be clean, and I am right out there with everybody on that, but we have to get these permits done to cre...
I know I, personally, learn a great deal every time I leave one of our hearings.
I do not think there is anybody in this room that does not like clean air and clean water.
Every project is going to create jobs, and the good part about the Permit Litigation Efficiency Act that you are considering today is that i...
If there are environmental issues, let's raise them early on so we can address it.
I want to thank all the witnesses for being here. I am speaking for all of us.
I asked them: Did you ever meet before to sort out these issues? They said, no.
the responsibility of the American people is to be diligent. But those of us who represent the American people, our responsibility is to be ...
the frivolity of a balanced budget amendment should have been discussed when my friends passed the frivolous tax cut bill.
the first responders are wonderful and as we understand the president's budget, some of those dollars for them were cut
I believe that the Transportation Security Administration... is a first line of defense in the nation's airports.
We are very unclear on how enforcement proceeds with dreamer, status dreamer persons.
I do think that all of us need to look at a reconfiguration of FEMA to the rescue period...
I believe that the department is less diverse than it has ever been.
