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But they are driven locally based on the ability to pay.

How long do you think it would be--what timeframe would be appropriate to make the repairs?

Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

Trump made cleaning up these sites a priority.

There are over 1,100 designated Superfund sites around the country.

If we want schools to be open, shouldn't we be open too?

We are losing as much as 30 percent of the water. Thirty percent of the water that we treated.

Thirty percent is not acceptable. Imagine if we lost 30 percent of our oil and gas in the pipelines, if we leaked that.

Look, I get a kick out of, as a civil engineer--the only licensed civil engineer in Congress--I get a kick out of the fact that our committee and others keep referring to the ASCE report.

We have got to stop this. And according to the American Water Works Association, we are going to need 1.7, almost 2 trillion dollars through 2050 to repair this infrastructure.

I'm still praying we've got ten good solid patriots within that conference.

There continue to be vast differences between the White House and Senate Republicans when it comes to the definition of infrastructure, the magnitude of proposed spending, and how to pay for it.

Inaction is not an option. Congress must come together -- just as we have done time and again -- to reaffirm our longstanding bipartisan commitment to free, accessible and secure elections for all.

I'm not going to criticize the government there, Senator Manchin, but I don't know the local conditions.

It is critical that we include forest and wildfires in our conversations about carbon emissions.

I am giving a shout-out to Nicholls State and to the Water Institute of the Gulf, but let me also point out that the restoration of Louisiana's wetlands does have national significance.

The Biden Administration established a goal of reducing emissions by 50 percent by 2050.

Scientists are telling us that if we proactively manage our forests, we cannot only prevent emissions from wildfires, but we can also increase the amount of carbon we are sequestering and storing.