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Without a doubt, it's paramount for Congress to continue supporting NOAA's mission through a well-funded budget.

I sent a letter to NIH back on May 9th asking why taxpayer dollars were spent on a study entitled, Psychological Functioning in Transgender Youth After Two Years on Hormones.

I implore that this Committee start to look at mass shootings and the real weapons that are destroying people's lives, which are AR-15s.

I can assure you it is not ESG.

If Ronald Reagan was here and he was listening to people talk about... that we need government to make sure that people have to invest in companies... he would not even recognize you guys.

I mean, it used to be about free markets, and it used to be about corporate freedom, and it used to be small government.

The fact of the matter is that sand that is being dredged is the sand that came from the beach and the sand that really needs to go back to the beach to preserve the ecosystem.

I represent a lot of constituents that are very frustrated about this particular issue.

If you want a wise expenditure of Federal funds, don't go sending us miles offshore.

There is zero negative environmental impact.

There has been no evidence of any detrimental impact on the ecosystem around Masonboro Inlet or the sound areas around Wrightsville Beach.

H.R. 524, the long and the short of it is, it fixes this problem in a very common-sense fashion by creating the exemption, making that permanent, which has been practiced for 50-plus years.

I appreciate the opportunity to highlight the importance of H.R. 524 to amend the Coastal Barrier Resources Act to create an exemption for certain shoreline borrow sites.

This bill would provide that certainty.

Mr. Rouzer's bill, H.R. 524, would restore reason to the process of how we maintain and restore beaches.

Congressman Rouzer's H.R. 524 proposes that certain borrow sites be exempted if these sites have been used by a coastal storm risk management program for more than 15 years.

The return on the Federal dollar spent is significantly higher than many projects that you continue to fund.

Congressman David Rouzer has introduced H.R. 524, which would exempt inlet borrow sources that were used to support beach nourishment projects for at least 15 years from CBRA.