There is something seriously wrong here about this situation.

It is a hell of a lot more important than the money that we are spending with a whole bunch of billions last night in the Armed Services NDAA markup.

If you want something done, get the Coast Guard.

Please do that. Deliver it to the committee, if you would.

My point here is that we need the information so that we can fight on your behalf.

The Navy cannot do its work without the Coast Guard.

Why haven't you done it?

Chairman Whitehouse spoke to the need for a low income water assistance program earlier as well because you know whose hardest hit when it comes to these increased costs.

It's critical that we continue to fund water infrastructure to help water systems become more resilient to climate change.

At a time when you are talking about record production, record exports, record profits, we continue to hear this rhetoric about the Biden administration declaring a war on oil and gas.

In a drought stricken western United States, the last thing we can afford is to lose a significant amount of water supply due to leaky pipes.

It is a little rich when the Chair lectures you about good faith. And you should just know that when that term is used around here, it has a coded meaning.

There are few places where the challenges of climate change, extreme weather, and fluctuations in precipitation are felt more acutely than in California.

In a drought stricken western United States, the last thing we can afford is to lose a significant amount of water supply due to leaky pipes.

Federal investment in water infrastructure as a whole has declined about 77 percent since its peak in the 1970s.

Federal investment in water infrastructure as a whole has declined about 77 percent since its peak in the 1970s.

And when we see clear evidence that these fossil fuel interests are colluding with OPEC to screw American consumers and rig the global price of oil, and Democrats try to do something about it on a bipartisan basis, we hear crickets from…

Chairman Whitehouse spoke to the need for a low income water assistance program earlier as well because you know whose hardest hit when it comes to these increased costs.