Grace Napolitano

Is this concept similar in approach taken by the administration to propose a fee for hardrock mine operations to address this legacy?

You don't have something that outlines the priorities these mines might have.

Would Good Samaritan legislation be more impactful if it appeared with increased funding?

I would like to say I agree with my colleague. If not now, when? We have been asking that for many, many generations. Because of the mass shootings, American families are demanding Congress to act. They want action, but Congress has not…

Thank you, Chairman Gibbs, for today's hearing on the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, and thus providing the subcommittee with a chance to review the progress made in the restoration of one of our Nation's greatest resources, the Great…

Well, I will check, but it was supposed to be a pilot in Bakersfield by the Costner, the group that did the Bridge petroleum spill.

I would like to be able to know the results of that because of the protection for that area.

we need to get more of that information so that EPA does work with the community to ensure that that is done and that it is not heavyhanded as an unfunded mandate to our communities.

How is the GLRI prepared to produce the same results in the next 5 years as it has in the past 5 years, considering the scope of the problems?

And you are currently working on how many mines to be able to address the issues?

How many other areas do we have that are really concerning, in terms of contamination that are cancerous?

Does it have to be on the Superfund? Does it have to be designated a Superfund site?

But is it only at the request of a state, or do we have the ability to have you look at a lot of these mines?

Estimates of the number of abandoned mines in the United States vary greatly--anywhere from 100,000 to 500,000.

They are making money, they are not being--how would I say--made responsible for anything that they leave behind.

Thank you for the question, Congresswoman Napolitano.

I hold a little bit concerning. Please keep that in mind.

How much is that fund?

How do we protect our water? How do we clean it up? How do we help the communities be able to revitalize that source of critical water?

Why are we not getting them all together and saying we need to address this as a whole rather than everybody doing their own thing?

In fact, I could do the whole 1 hour on this.

I thank my colleague for yielding. Mr. Chairman, I do heavily oppose H.R. 2898. It does create no new wet water. I am hearing a lot of rhetoric on all these different things that have happened. I have been on that subcommittee for 17…

There is a $300 million backlog on title XVI for recycled water that would help southern California be able to wean itself off of the imported water. Key House Democratic proposals have been excluded from the bill we are marking up today…

On Thursday, June 25th, 2015, I was absent during rollcall vote No. 387. Had I been present, I would have voted ``yea'' on the motion to suspend the rules and pass H.R. 1615, the DHS FOIA Efficiency Act, as amended. ____________________

On Thursday, June 25th, 2015, I was absent during rollcall vote No. 389. Had I been present, I would have voted ``yea'' on the motion to suspend the rules and pass H.R. 2200, the CBRN Intelligence and Information Sharing Act, as amended…