"We need them and we need them now."
"Do we need to go into the various Federal agencies that are involved--Corps of Engineers, EPA, so forth--and require them to coordinate with the local agencies?"
"Rebuilding our maritime industry requires specific legislative support for the industry."
"this is something that comes to us, and your earlier testimony, once again, I apologize for missing, should be the foundation for an amendment to our current tax law so that we don't double tax so tha..."
"What I am making here is an argument that we are spending the money in the wrong place."
"The President intends to spend some $8 billion building a wall. And the question really revolves how best to spend our taxpayer resources."
"If we are going to deal with drugs entering the United States through the land, then it is really the ports of entry that we need to spend the money on."
"It is increasingly clear that the number of natural disasters that we have had has put extraordinary stress on FEMA."
"Why are you building a disaster industrial complex? Why are you not using local contractors?"
"What is happening in these counties is you are bringing in national companies, often based 2,000 to 3,000 miles away."
"For a couple of billion dollars we could have the heavy icebreakers."