Grace Napolitano

Of course, there are still reports of people being sick. Now, they cannot prove that it is as a result of this spill.

I think I want to associate myself with the remarks from Representatives Grijalva and Torres.

the public needs to trust us in being able to provide that for them.

We are looking at what is right for the public. I mean that is our bottom line.

Those entities that really sent good, solid information to this committee were the San Gabriel Valley Council of Governments, the San Gabriel Valley Economic Partnership, the Alameda Corridor-East Construction Authority, the Foothill…

I thank Mr. DeFazio for yielding. Mr. Chair, I rise in opposition to this amendment, which would overturn a Federal court decision that determined California meal and rest break laws apply to truckers. On July 9, 2014, the Ninth U.S…

I thank the chairman for those kind words. I thank Mrs. Mimi Walters and Messrs. Royce and Calvert for their support of this amendment. I certainly look forward to continuing to work on transportation, and I thank the gentleman for hanging…

I, too, want to give thanks to both Mr. Shuster and Mr. DeFazio for their great work on this bill. It is absolutely amazing. Thank you so very much. Mr. Chairman, this is a bipartisan amendment with Mr. Royce and Mr. Calvert and would…

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page 184, line 22, strike ``and'' at the end. Page 185, line 7, strike ``and'' at the end. Page 185, after…

I certainly want to thank my colleague, Mr. Gibbs, for introducing this very important amendment. I do strongly support this amendment that requests a DOT study regarding the federally funded materials used by the States for culvert and…

I claim time in opposition to the amendment. The Acting CHAIR. The gentlewoman from California is recognized for 5 minutes.

I claim the time in opposition. The Acting CHAIR. The gentlewoman from California is recognized for 5 minutes.

I thank my colleague for yielding. Madam Chairman, I rise in strong support of the Johnson amendment, and I thank my colleague from Texas for offering it. This amendment would allow unused TIFIA funds to be reprogrammed into--in other…

It would allow them to do mining?

Well, that is probably very true.

If we ultimately really want to solve the problem of abandoned hardrock mines, would you agree that concepts of these Good Samaritan cleanups and a dedicated fund for hardrock mine cleanup are inseparably bound together?

Well, if the Good Samaritan is going to come in for the purposes of being a Good Samaritan, but if they are coming in to mine and leave a worse mess, what safeguards are there to be able to preclude that from happening?

So you do not have enough budget to be able to carry out the needs.

But isn't it also true that the Governor of the State should be able to allow that specific mine to go on Superfund?

Well, maybe we should start looking at that, because they are the ones who are going to have to be impacted by their pollution.

Well, we want to be sure--or at least I would hope that we would try to protect the taxpayer from having to end up cleaning up abandoned mines, when there might be possibility of being able to find the potential responsible parties, PRPs…

Will this be defined in being able to determine how a Good Samaritan should act in cleaning up?

I would like to be able to have a list of those mines that are in the 137 list that you have.

But we also need to know what kind of contamination some of these mines might have...

Over the years there--the taxpayers have been left to clean up the mess.