Elizabeth Esty

We know that making long-term investments in our nation's infrastructure stimulates the economy, creates jobs, and drives commerce.

We've called for the creation of something like an ARPA H2O to look at the water infrastructure.

If the President refuses to hold him accountable, then Congress has to do its job.

It's sort of not in the mindset of the academics.

We have benefited enormously by that openness, but that makes us extremely vulnerable.

To all of you, and based on the anecdotes you shared with us here today, it seems like there's a very serious lack of situational awareness of people in the academy.

Administrator Pruitt's alleged unethical behavior, his wasteful use of taxpayer money, his ongoing efforts to undermine the EPA's mission...

I just want to take a moment to again implore this committee to provide oversight to EPA Administrator Pruitt.

Having been a law student, a lot of law students don't take intellectual property courses, so I think you're going to need to have something that's a mini version that's accessible to people.

It matters a lot to our veterans.

I strongly support H.R. 4958, the Veterans Compensation Cost of Living Adjustment Act of 2018 sponsored by Chairman Bost and myself.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I am very happy to be here this morning for the second legislative hearing this Congress for the DAMA Subcommittee.

That undermines the faith of the American people.

It has a national security component when we don't properly dredge our ports.

We actually have needs that are not being met.

We do a lot of outreach. We hear all the time how they can't get in to see somebody from VocRehab.

If the end-users, the veterans we are here to serve, are not able to access, we have a problem, right?

The Blind Veterans Association is extremely concerned that the--and, particularly, as we rely more and more on Web sites--the Web sites are not compliant for those who are visually impaired.

It is currently a problem, because our point should be to enable our veterans.

Perhaps my colleague, Mr. O'Rourke, is right that both of these programs should not be in the same administration.

We have an incentive structure right now which calls upon our veterans and pushes them to prove how disabled they are in order to get support.

Our veterans served us, and we need to ensure that we are effectively serving them.

I think we all owe it to them to make sure that those legacy appeals don't just disappear.

Thank you all for your hard work and your testimony before us here today.

The administration's proposal for a compensation COLA round down is a nonstarter.