I rise reluctantly in opposition to the motion to instruct offered by our friend from South Carolina. I genuinely enjoy his friendship. And working with him, I agree with him on many issues. This is one where we just disagree. I have…

Well, we are united. We are 20 to zero. Twenty yeas, zero nays, and the legislation is favorably reported.

may the fourth and the force be with you.

we must be doing more to address it.

I am pretty excited on this May 4th about our bipartisan package.

It is important that we need to not just address the symptoms of these problems, but also the root causes.

we need to find out what works and do more of that.

This is the worst drought in 1,200 years. It has been going on for about 20 years, and it presents serious challenges.

I want to thank Senator Cardin, him and his team, and Senator Cramer, to you and your team in your role as Ranking Member on the Subcommittee.

I want to take a moment to thank Senators Capito, Cardin, Cramer, that is a lot of Cs, other members of our Committee, and our staffs as well for the hard work in getting this legislation ready for consideration today.

The yeas are, say that again, 20 to zero? I like that.

The idea of reporting out something this expansive, this beneficial, again, with a bipartisan unanimous vote, is just, for me, it is very rewarding and satisfying.

teamwork does make the dream work.

I wish you could come with me today and see what a Committee where people work together, members, staff, what we can get done for 50 States with input from all 50 States.

OK. Ms. Christian, the same question. In terms of the changes that we had hoped for and expected from the 2020 legislation, any differences?

The expectation of those who have supported a change in law embodied in the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), was that we got to do this better.

I think this is an important hearing. I think the question for me and the issue here is, why haven't the reforms that were adopted 2 years ago worked better?

I do not think there is any community in America that has won the Abilene Trophy more than Dover.

I love that base. In fact, our community loves the Dover Air Force Base.

A more perfect union. The idea is everything we do we can do better.

I like to say, find out what works, do more of that.

We care a lot about the folks who live there.

I ask unanimous consent to print the following letter in the Record. There being no objection, the material was ordered to be printed in the Record, as follows: U.S. Senate, Committee on Environment and Public Works, Washington, DC, April…

I ask unanimous consent to print the following letter in the Record. There being no objection, the material was ordered to be printed in the Record, as follows: United States Senate, Committee on Environment and Public Works, Washington…

I trust Governor Carper as much as I trust Senator Carper.