John Garamendi

Madam Chair, you are really, really fortunate that you are not here in the hearing room.

I believe this rule must be immediately repealed and then replaced.

One of the most important, at least for this committee, will be the rewrite of the Navigable Waters Protection Rule, known here as the Dirty Water Rule.

I couldn't disagree more with the ranking member. That rule should be immediately repealed.

Addressing environmental justice considerations and community engagement needs to become the norm again.

I expect this corporate giveaway to also be reversed soon.

The previous administration continuously brought us laughable budget proposals that ignored federal responsibility, or reality.

We, as members of Congress, are tasked with ensuring the strength and health of our nation, our economies, and our overall quality of life for future generations.

I have been working for over two decades--since the days of Chairman Bud Shuster--to unlock the Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund.

It is a budget that recognizes the critical role that the federal government plays in sustaining our economy, our environment, and our quality of life.

We wish you well. We may, from time to time, brow beat you, but we know that you have got a very difficult situation.

I think this issue remains unresolved, despite President Trump's 2018 directive.

I think Putin has put that on the table already, and two of you, two of the four have already said that would be a good starting point.

So there ought to be a discussion on strategic stability with the three nations that we are talking about.

I do believe there is opportunities to discuss arms, including non-kinetic, such as cyber and space.

So the quick answer is, yes.

I have been on this committee 10 years now, and we have spent billions upon billions trying to create a defense, and it seems the faster we go, the behinder we get.

It may be because they can make a heck of a lot more money sending those containers empty, rather than back to the Western Pacific.

We have got a problem in which the shipping industry is able to discriminate against American exporters, plain and simple.

When we begin to man ships with less people because it's always easy to take away people--that's money in your pocket right off the bat--or we put less ammunition in magazines or less spare parts in supply storerooms or we cut back on…

I think it is very interesting and questionable of whether you use a 55-year time horizon here to estimate cost in the system.

That is a good piece of information, but I was actually talking about your present plan is to have the Minuteman III in the silos, operative, as well as the GBSD as the transition takes place.

I want to follow up on questions that Mr. Khanna had posed to General Dawkins.

I want to thank the presenters: General Thompson, General Thomas, General Martin, General Allvin, and Admiral Lescher.

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