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.

The Corps does not have an estimate of the cost to do the necessary maintenance and repairs for every deficient levee in the United States.

This is a 300,000-acre win-win program that is available.

The lack of water is partially the Federal Government's fault.

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.

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.

can you commit to giving the Upper Ohio Navigation Project, full and fair consideration given the urgent state of the project and its significant benefits for my region and our country?

We also have algae blooms in California.

I believe this rule must be immediately repealed and then replaced.

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.

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 complete and immediate repeal.

I expect this corporate giveaway to also be reversed soon.