Doris Matsui actually said...

"Wildfire season is getting longer. Wildfire incidents are becoming more common and their intensity is increasing."

"The natural disasters we will examine at today's hearing were, just a few years ago, irregularities, unavoidable but uncommon events."

"As a Representative of Sacramento, California, WRDA is uniquely meaningful to me and to my constituents who live in the second most flood-prone city in our country, after New Orleans."

"The catastrophic flooding we have seen across the country in just the last year is telling, and I fear the severe flooding will no longer be 100- or even 500-year events, but a new norm for my constit..."