"I appreciate the chairman, appreciate all of our witnesses. Thanks for all the excellent work that you do."
"While relief exists for Federal student loan borrowers impacted by fraud, the same is not true for VA education beneficiaries."
"I reintroduced this bipartisan bicameral bill last month with Ranking Member Pappas and Representatives McMorris, Rogers, and Finstad to improve veterans' ability to use their benefits."
"We have a responsibility to ensure that veterans and their families can readily access the benefits and services that they have earned."
"I want to personally invite you and any Member interested to my district and to see the Carlsbad desalination plant."
"The reality is we can do both common-sense water storage, and desal, and recycling, and conservation."
"I support more desal, by the way, in Southern California when it can be done in an environmentally responsible way."
"$1 billion for water recycling, $250 million for desal, and $4 billion to improve the resilience of the Colorado River Basin, all accomplishments of the last Congress."
"I want to thank the American Sportfishing Association and you for endorsing that bipartisan bill."
"I can tell you at 60 million gallons a day it is the largest in the Western Hemisphere, but it only ranks 10th in the world."
"The reality is we have to do it all."
"Let me turn to talk about the work of the last Congress with regard to water resilience that I think will impact all of us in the Western United States: $1 billion for water recycling, $250 million fo..."