"By delaying funds or providing insufficient funds to an ongoing construction project, the total cost of that project is going to go up."
"I will never forget the Sunday afternoon just over a year ago when we heard that the collapse of Oroville Dam's emergency spillway was imminent. It would threaten 180,000 lives if it collapsed."
"California needs more storage, and that is certainly true. We are waiting and we have waited for 15 years now for Reclamation to complete the feasibility studies on sites Los Vaqueros and Temperance F..."
"This is an extremely important and bipartisan issue, and I am very grateful to both the Chairman and the Ranking Member for giving it the attention it deserves."
"We owe it to them, and all of the other survivors, to continue to shed light on the failures of those who were meant to protect them, and bring justice to those who have long deserved it."
"It is because of their powerful and deeply personal stories that I first began working on the Protecting Young Victims from Sexual Abuse and Safe Sport Authorization Act."
"the 2017 Point-In-Time (PIT) Count from your Department found approximately 553,700 individuals' nationwide experiencing homelessness on any given night in January 2017, a net increase of 3,800 people..."
"California communities represented seven of the ten largest increases in homelessness nationally since 2016."
"For example, Los Angeles County reported the largest increase in veteran homelessness in the country, documenting 1,748 more homeless veterans in 2017, an increase of 64 percent from 2016."
"the Trump Administration's Nuclear Posture Review jeopardizes the Executive Branch's end of the bargain by proposing new nuclear weapons"
"I can say that the B83 is the largest warhead in America's arsenal."
"Times have changed since World War II. The world is more interconnected and knowledgeable about nuclear weapons."