Jerry Lewis: “it is the committee's intent to allow for section 314 projects under the Clean Water Act to be funded with the $100…”

I would speak just for a moment by way of saying that I think in many ways we have demonstrated if we are not careful with our rhetoric, we can undermine the opportunity we have for bipartisan consideration of very important work in the…

I find this conversation to be very interesting, and I noted that there is a tendency not to accept authorizing language in this instance because of a very specific problem, and because the authorizing committee has not acted. I, frankly…

I will never forget my trip to New Orleans to try to see what was happening with money we sent there over a lot of years to the Housing Authority. I met with the Inspector General in the offices of the FBI to discuss what I had seen and…

I very much appreciate our chairman yielding. I, too, want to express our deepest gratitude to Dale Oak and his family for the years and years of work and sacrifice they have put in on our behalf. As the chairman indicated, Dale has worked…