Eleanor Holmes Norton

While I am waiting for my posters to arrive at the rostrum, I am happy to yield to the gentleman from Georgia (Mr. Woodall).

Are you engaged in that kind of really foresighted advice to--as part of mitigation that apparently the whole vision of what you did before is no longer viable, in light of these unprecedented storms and other climate events that we are…

It is--but it is a very rare example of the Congress being able to fund before the fact.

Unless something is done now, this cycle of build, damage, and rebuild will continue.

The problem is that these were unprecedented disasters.

This is no longer we are--``This is what is going to happen.'' It is happening.

If you--if climate change--and I commend you for factoring climate change into your work; I am very interested in how you do that.

How can the Government put a price on that? My son played with that. Those are memories. How can you put a price on that?

If for $500 million invested you can get $1.6 billion in return, if you were a private investor, you couldn't resist that.

This is a very important and, I think, timely hearing.

Today our Nation is at a critical junction. In recent years we have seen strong storms with greater frequency.

Please note for the record that his State, and now a great many other States, are directly responsible for that because they have failed to allow poor and middle class and disabled people to get health through expansion of the Medicaid…

I must say that the number of State exchanges that have problems... really does show that technology is overrated.

They have been doing work there for almost 20 years.

All I need is a back and forth with the community, because as the community sees a good faith effort...

I commend the ATF for looking to innovative risk bearing ways to get at gun running in our society.

So they have gone further. The IRS has gone further than the IG asked to go.

It is clear that the IG found that they had used inappropriate lists for these so-called BOLO lists.

If the point is to find out the truth, it seems to me at least we could have gotten through a lot of that here.

I think this is one of those jobs.

The committee's obsession with Lois Lerner I think could have been avoided.

I have no further requests for time and yield back the balance of my time.

Randolph Moss, whom I introduce today, stood out for his exceptionally well-qualified background.

In the absence of Federal action for behind-the-wheel training... I like to know... when you intend to issue a rule.

This region experienced a horrific tragedy. And out of that tragedy, I am pleased to say, at least came the first Federal authority to regulate Metrorail safety through cities.