
More importantly, we must also protect the millions of lives who depend on our full embrace of all forms of disaster prevention and resilience.
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More importantly, we must also protect the millions of lives who depend on our full embrace of all forms of disaster prevention and resilience.

We must ensure that our area has the resources it needs to protect the Greater Houston and Galveston regions' manufacturing, retail, agriculture, business, energy, and military supply chains in Texas and in the Nation.

We've seen what happens when we fail to do that.

Ensuring effective and reliable water infrastructure is vital to American families, businesses, farms, and to the economic development of our country.

I come before you to request that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers take up our delegation's request for taking on the assumption and maintenance of Project 11, the port's large-scale project to widen, deepen, and dredge the port so that it…

I have long been concerned that current river management practices prioritize fish and wildlife over the protection of people and property.

We must ensure that Port Houston is fully supported in project financing through operations and maintenance.

Studies show similar barrier systems to the one we are requesting have an almost immediate return on investment.

A little too much rainfall and too little of a focus on flood control can lead to disastrous results for people who live and work along our nation's waterways.

Well, I think there’s some questions of whether we have the authority to do it. We are looking at it. If the authorities are there, there will be no reluctance on our part.

He is an integral part of whatever happens. And he`s on a list of a people we will be talking to.

If the authorities are there, there will be no reluctance on our part.

We have information that members hosted, people who came to Washington on that day in our office.

The vice president was put in a tough spot. The president was putting a lot of pressure on him to break the law, and he stood fast, and because of his respect for law, there were people who came to the Capitol a year ago wanting to hang…

We are learning that individuals conspire to change the outcome of the election, that they use assets of the federal government to try to promote the big lie that they intimidated state officials toward the big lie. I`m concern that even…

His life was in danger. I would hope that he would do the right thing and come forward and voluntarily talk to the committee.

If there's anything that we come upon, as a committee, that we think would warrant a referral, to the Department of Justice, we will do that.

There were people who had gallows erected on the lawn of the Capitol ostensibly to hang the vice president. His life was in danger. I would hope that he would do the right thing and come forward and voluntarily. Talk to the committee. We`d…