I am also a licensed professional engineer. I spent over two decades doing engineering work.

Protecting our waters is absolutely critical to communities and ecosystems at home and all around the Nation.

What is most important to these compliance efforts is a permitting process that is consistent, predictable, timely, and focused on protecting true aquatic resources.

Water is obviously critical for life. We can't live without it.

There is no common sense in what is going on in many of these rules that are getting passed down.

I would like to take some time and apologize to all those farmers, those construction workers, everybody that is out there in this country trying to do the right thing...

It is critical that neither the Federal Government nor a State takes too heavy-handed an approach.

The most effective way to address these issues is through implementing effective and pragmatic environmental policies under the Clean Water Act that balance environmental, economic, and social outcomes.

They don't want to sidestep the rules or avoid the rules. They want to know what the rules are so that they can meet the regulations...

the rollback of the 2015 rule ends 'years of uncertainty over where federal jurisdiction begins and ends.'

We are pleased that the House Water Resources Subcommittee is taking the time to hold a hearing on this and other very important Clean Water Act (CWA) issues.

I applaud the administration for trying to put some sanity into these regulations so that people know how to deal with them.