John Garamendi

I thank the gentlewoman from Ohio (Ms. Kaptur) and the gentleman from New York (Mr. Tonko) for joining us. I can assure you, we will be back. Mr. Speaker, I yield back the balance of my time. ____________________

I thank Mr. Tonko very much. It is always a pleasure and learning experience to be on the floor with Mr. Tonko. I now yield to the gentlewoman from Ohio (Ms. Kaptur). We are about to wrap it up as we are nearly out of time.

I was just thinking that I have got more stories to tell, but I really want to turn to our colleague from New York. Mr. Tonko and I are often on the floor--with you also--to discuss jobs in America, how to enhance our American economy with…

Thank you very much, Ms. Kaptur. I loved your talk of the history and how it came to pass that we have Social Security and Medicare and what happened when we did not. It was really profound. It reminded me of my own history. I remember, as…

(Mr. GARAMENDI asked and was given permission to revise and extend his remarks.)

However, a couple of bumps, well, let's say pipelines and property have perhaps put this project in jeopardy.

It is authorized. It is the Hamilton City project in California. It is really the first of its kind in which the environmental organizations and the Nature Conservancy are working with the Corps and the local community to establish both…

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. And, General, thank you so much for your work and the Corps' work both in terms of the ongoing projects as well as the emergency situations that all of us face and you handle so very well.

I thank the gentleman from New York (Mr. Tonko), my friend and colleague, for the passion and commitment he has to his people and to the American people and beyond. Mr. Speaker, I yield back the balance of my time. ____________________

Wow. 80 percent of American families would be able to send their kids to school without tuition costs.

I thought that might be the case, the answer, but I threw it out there because we would like to get at this and have some assurances that these response mechanisms are actually in existence.

The fact is that this is a bad idea. This is not something we need. We don't want it.

We have done numerous hearings about the Arctic, about the necessity of understanding the Arctic in detail.

What resources would be necessary to deal with this Arctic situation, which we know is the new Northwest or Northeast Passage?

Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

Our Nation needs a backup system.

I am very, very disappointed in the administration in all this--as it continues to circle around and circle around what we know is a backup system that is readily available to us.

Could you expand on that and tell us what that study is all about and what technologies you are looking at?

Only last week an article ran in the Wall Street Journal entitled, 'Pilotless sailing is on the horizon.'

Your numbers are bullshit.

Nobody on this side is talking about disarmament. We are talking about let us be wise, let us be smart, and let us recognize that there are limits.

The American public will decide what that administration will be in the future, although I have my own ideas about what would be best.

No way, no how will this icebreaker--one, two, or more--be built in a foreign shipyard. It will be made in America, period.

They are kind of biding their time with $150 million in the various--and then laying out some strategy into the future.

We are coming to that point, I think. And so we are going to have to make some decisions here.