Alex Padilla actually said...

"We want folks to enter into this career field. And if there are too many barriers in place, which I think they are, maybe we should look at it again."

"This is really, in my opinion, an interim State solution to what is fundamentally a Federal problem and responsibility."

"Thanks to the work of the bipartisan members of this Committee, Congress provided over $4 billion for tribal sanitation over the next 5 years via the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law."

"Is there something about the nature, the fundamental nature of the different types of water agencies that impacts for better or worse access to safe, clean drinking water by the different types of age..."