Grace Napolitano

I am most concerned the Sackett decision has transferred significant costs from polluters to States, localities, and everyday American families.

Members who voted for the BIL voted for clean water.

the projected 40 percent cut to the budget of EPA--an agency founded on the principal of safeguarding the health of our citizens and our natural environment.

Since 2007, Grace has been a trailblazing member of this committee, fighting to make our waters cleaner and our transportation systems safer and greener.

Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman, for holding today's hearing on President Biden's fiscal year 2024 budget and priorities for the remaining agencies and within the jurisdiction of this subcommittee.

I am further dismayed by the focus on putting polluters over our people and eliminating Clean Water Act protections on over half of the Nation's wetlands and up to 70 percent of the Nation's streams, rivers, and lakes.

On July 10, Ranking Member Larsen and I wrote a letter to EPA and the Corps, asking for your help...

the U.S. Supreme Court's misguided decision in Sackett v. Environmental Protection Agency ... dramatically limited the scope of federal protections over the nation's waters

I would like to see some of them, if you would, please. I think the Committee would like to see them.

I am just wondering how long that is going to take before any Federal agency, not just yours, actually puts the programs to work instead of waiting months and years sometimes before they are implemented.

I have never found that rail completely pays for itself. It is almost always subsidized.

The foundation for all the service is having a modern reliable infrastructure, and you can't do that with bridges and tunnels that were built when Teddy Roosevelt was President and Ulysses S. Grant was President and William Howard Taft was…

We have only given Amtrak $22 billion?

Somehow, we have got to speed up our system so that we can provide essentially good service since we have the best Nation in the world.

For how long has Amtrak been requesting funding for state of good repair and infrastructure due to deterioration?

I was absent for votes due to testing positve for COVID-19. Had I been present, I would have voted ``yea'' on rollcall No. 236 and ``nay'' on rollcall No. 237. PERSONAL EXPLANATION

I was absent for votes due to testing positive for COVID-19. Had I been present, I would have voted ``nay'' on rollcall No. 233, ``nay'' on rollcall No. 234 and ``yea`` on rollcall No. 235. PERSONAL EXPLANATION

I was absent for votes due to testing positive for COVID-19. Had I been present, I would have voted ``nay'' on rollcall No. 232, passage of S.J. Res. 11.

On behalf of the National Wildlife Federation and our nearly seven million members and supporters, we urge you to reject attempts to undermine critical Clean Water Act tools that protect our nation's waters and wildlife habitat as well as…

It is important for Congress to conduct oversight and call on EPA to rewrite this guidance in a manner that actually looks at CWA compliance through the lens of poor households and families who can't afford sudden and major rate increases.

I agree with you. We should not be competing with China, because we will have to lower our standards, and I don't want that.

Unfortunately, in my opinion, every water bill advanced by this committee in Congress would needlessly weaken Federal and State efforts to protect our waters from pollution, such as excessive nutrients.

Now is not the time to pull back on Federal investments on wastewater infrastructure.

What is worse than that, according to the EPA, the percentage of nutrient-impaired waterways is increasing, even with substantial investment in our Nation's wastewater infrastructure, and we need to do more.

Over the past 50 years, the Clean Water Act has made considerable progress in addressing our nation's water quality concerns.