"I am very pleased to see that President Biden has proposed to reverse the destructive funding cuts and undo the damaging regulatory rollbacks of the previous administration."
"Most critically, I fervently hope the administration moves quickly to replace the Trump 'dirty water rule,' which was the greatest undermining of the Clean Water Act in its history, and I urge its com..."
"I am also very pleased that the Biden administration is already taking action to make environmental justice a core part of every Federal agency's mission."
"When you want to talk rivers and things like that, fine. But every drop of water that falls on somebody's roof... does not belong to the United States."
"The lack of water is partially the Federal Government's fault."
"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."
"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 s..."
"We have got a problem in which the shipping industry is able to discriminate against American exporters, plain and simple."
"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."
"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."
"So the quick answer is, yes."