As the 2017 hurricane season illustrated, our nation... needs to be a resilient one that is ready for the next storm, flood, or drought event, because it is coming.

A question again for you, Ms. Ufner, dealing with stakeholder involvement. The ground rule is that stakeholder and project sponsor, in collaboration with the Army Corps of Engineers, is essential to solving our water resource challenges…

the state of our crumbling infrastructure with a grade of D, and we are talking about the kind of situation we face here with our ports, our rivers, and so forth, it is just as bad with respect to roads, highways, and bridges.

In past years Senator Inhofe, working with Senator Barbara Boxer, they have been good at showing us how this is done.

In Louisiana, the State and its partners have used these concepts in constructing their own approach.

By 2020 the total volume of cargo shipped by water is expected to more than double by what it was just 17 years ago in 2001.

Thanks to all of our witnesses for taking time to share with us. This is a really important issue, and encouragingly, an issue that we might actually be able to work on together and get something done.

Delaware's economic reliance on the Corps' work is not unique.

that loss is roughly the size of the State of Delaware.

We are just not spending the money; we are not investing the money.

I think we need to get back to that spirit of, we can do this.

if you take a 16-year-old girl who is in high school, she becomes pregnant, has a child, drops out of school, does not marry the father of her child, there is an 80-percent likelihood they will live in poverty.

I am one who believes in going after root causes.

The current administration has repeatedly promised to tackle high drug prices. They have neglected to back up the rhetoric with meaningful results, at least to this point in time.

I think you handled yourself very well in front of this committee, and hopefully we can get you up and out as soon as we possibly can.

the likelihood that that family will end up in poverty is 8 percent.

We must work in a bipartisan fashion to really address these concerns and build consensus on a path forward for our economy.

We can't do it on our own; we need a strong Federal partnership.

We have this reluctance to pay for this stuff.

If we do that, we will confound our critics and amaze our friends.

my hope is that when we tackle infrastructure in the months to come, that we do it the right way and we do it together.

We need to build upon the prior success of this Committee to provide the wherewithal to modernize our infrastructure.

I welcome this important hearing, and I want to thank our Chair and Ranking Member for pulling this all together.

Investing in infrastructure will not only build the tools necessary so that we can grow our economy; it will create the jobs of the future.

it is a pleasure to be on the floor tonight with my friend the Senator from Alaska. The Navy salutes the Marine Corps and salutes him for his service before. Now I just want to follow up on a couple of things that he mentioned. He need not…