Wildfire season is getting longer. Wildfire incidents are becoming more common and their intensity is increasing.

The natural disasters we will examine at today's hearing were, just a few years ago, irregularities, unavoidable but uncommon events.

We need to be thoughtfully prioritizing projects that consider the long-term consequences of climate change.

This change will help advance proposals for needed projects in the region that would protect California residents and improve safety and sustainability.

Our top priority should be in proposing policies that consider the impacts of climate change in our country.

We need to thoughtfully prioritize projects that consider the long-term consequences of climate change.

The catastrophic flooding we have seen across the country in just the last year is telling, and I fear the severe flooding will no longer be 100- or even 500-year events, but a new norm for my constituents.

In the face of a changing climate, we must begin taking a new look at Federal flood control projects, starting with WRDA 2020.

As a Representative of Sacramento, California, WRDA is uniquely meaningful to me and to my constituents who live in the second most flood-prone city in our country, after New Orleans.

We need more research.

By improving the ways in which we monitor and manage these complex and multifaceted diseases, we can better understand, treat, and maybe one day prevent food allergies.