Grace Napolitano

Like you, my constituents elected me to be their voice in Congress, and I know better what my communities need than the head of OMB.

I am hopeful that we will continue to improve and expand the Corps' ability to address water-related infrastructure challenges faced by each of our communities.

Members of this committee on both sides are frustrated by the lack of transparency by which the administration identifies which projects to fund.

You are on your own.

I am pleased that the President has opened the discussion on eliminating the moratorium on congressionally directed spending requests.

Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman, for holding the formal hearing on the development of the new Water Resources Development Act of 2018.

The administration position is that water resources needs of the wealthy communities are more important than smaller communities and rural communities.

Is there a reason why the administration chooses not to fund the dredging needs of those communities, despite the fact that $10 billion in Harbor Maintenance Trust Funds currently sit in a trust fund?

Regardless of the method of delivery or the source of financing, the cost of infrastructure projects are borne by the public--there is no free lunch.

This is very troubling to us, or at least to me, because less affluent communities may be unable to pay for them, yet they have great needs.

I have made a point of the lack of consistent available appropriations to the Corps, which has resulted in fewer Corps-led projects being undertaken.

It is now January of 2018, 6 full months, and after those questions were submitted we haven't gotten an answer. It is not really acceptable.

I certainly think you are right, but we also need to look at increasing the funding.

I was absent during rollcall votes No. 701 through 710 due to a death in my family. Had I been present, I would have voted ``Yea'' on the motion to recommit H.R. 4015, ``Nay'' on passage of H.R. 4015, ``Nay'' on ordering the previous…

I was absent during rollcall votes No. 697, 698, and 700 due to a death in my family. Had I been present, I would have voted ``Nay'' on ordering the previous question on H. Res. 668, ``Nay'' on agreeing to H. Res. 668 and ``Yea'' on H.R…

I was absent during rollcall vote No. 699 due to the death of my spouse. Had I been present, I would have voted ``Nay'' on the Motion to Concur in the Senate Amendment to H.R. 1, the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. ____________________

I was absent during rollcall votes No. 694 through 695 due to a death in my family. Had I been present, I would have voted ``Nay'' on H.R. 3312, Systemic Risk Designation Improvement Act of 2017, and ``Yea'' on S. 1536, Combating Human…

During rollcall Vote number 672 on H.R. 2706, I mistakenly recorded my vote as ``nay'' when I should have voted ``yes.'' ____________________

I thank Mr. Pallone and Mr. Shimkus for their hard work. Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to rise today in support of the Environmental Protection Agency's brownfields program, H.R. 3017, a highly successful program by all accounts. In the past…

Would you mind sending the answers to this Committee, so we can understand that?

DOT needs to obligate the money they already have for disaster relief, and needs to increase the funding to the Federal Highway Administration in disaster supplemental.

I am proud to join you and Ranking Member Norton and 253 of our bipartisan colleagues in sending a letter to the Ways and Means Committee, urging them to fix the Highway Trust Fund revenue problem in order to provide sustained and…

I was absent during roll call votes No. 553 through 555 due to my spouse's health situation in California. Had I been present, I would have voted aye on the Grijalva of Arizona Substitute Amendment No. 1, aye on the Scott of Virginia…

I was absent during roll call votes No. 556 through 557 due to my spouse's health situation in California. Had I been present, I would have voted aye on the Yarmuth of Kentucky Substitute Amendment No. 4, and no on final passage of the…

Next month is the 45th anniversary of the enactment of the Clean Water Act, the main reason why our Nation's waterways experienced historic improvements in water quality even as the population increased by over 50 percent.