"we need to be sure that, if we are going to allow these trucking companies, that they meet all the safety requirements"
"I have been for years looking at the equity of the Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund."
"But in the distribution to the L.A. and Long Beach, they sort of kind of expected about $1.7 million and they received zero?"
"Well, I thought the idea was to have parity in the donors from the donor ports rather than competition for prioritization?"
"I would hope that we continue to look at it, and I don't see anything in the budget."
"the project apparently is quite critical for the restoration of the creek."
"Dam and levee safety are critical for life safety."
"My concern has been that while my area, the Alameda Corridor, brings in over 45 to 55 percent of the goods to the eastern seaboard, it has an impact because the whole corridor goes through my district..."
"I have always tasked the railroad to pony up more money for the grade separations because they only deal with about 3 percent of it."
"We are currently facing the worst drought in California's history and the West."
"This bill continues to mistakenly blame environmental law for the lack of authorization or appropriation of important water projects in the West."
"We agreed to it on a bipartisan basis, even though we had to kind of hold our nose to it in some areas."