Bill Posey

We must not fail to preserve the sustainability and resilience of our coastal resources, our environments, and our economies. Mr. Speaker, I ask my colleagues to support the COAST Research Act.

I thank the gentleman for yielding and his kind remarks. Mr. Speaker, I rise in support of H.R. 1237, the COAST Research Act, of which I am an original cosponsor. Those of us who live on the coast understand that the coast is an essential…

I want to thank you for your service and express that I am embarrassed by the way you are treated in this committee.

To achieve, you know, the ambitious timeline, I think that we all agree that we need to ensure that there's, number one, sufficient funding to get that done.

I think we had over 2 dozen different missions, over $20 billion up in smoke, because we couldn't stay on one plan from Administration to Administration, Congress to new Congress.

I look forward to working with all the Committee's members to enact these and other improvements on behalf of our constituents.

The current rule is cost prohibitive for many communities which reduces the likelihood of safety upgrades at railway crossings.

There is no place for discrimination against any American citizens. Allowing discrimination to persist would dishonor those who fought so bravely...

At our recent hearing on Homelessness and Housing Affordability, I pointed out that Secretary Carson has stated that local zoning and building restrictions were among the most important contributors to homelessness and to unaffordable…

I appreciated your comments last week about the importance of the exploration upper stage for the SLS.

When we marked up the Homeless Act, I offered an amendment to provide authority for HUD to use incentives to encourage local communities to reduce zoning measures and other land use practices that serve to restrict the supply of the…

This request is for a national priority, but it is also very close to home.

Most of the people selling private flood insurance or brokering private flood insurance or insuring private flood insurance in Florida don't use those bogus maps anyway.

I thank the gentleman for yielding the opportunity to speak about H.R. 1. You have heard it called the ``Welfare for Politicians Act''; you have heard it called the ``Democrat Politician Protection Act''; and you have heard it called a…

If somewhere there could just be just, say, given a certain level of pollution, you know, or certain measurements that you've taken, and here is a list of every single thing from oyster beds to oxygenating to on down the list, and then…

I live upon the Atlantic shores of the Florida peninsula. My constituents understand in a very deep way the economic and environmental importance of our oceans.

It is also great to have a Chairman here who answers questions so directly, and we appreciate that.

I would like to think that everyone in this room at one level or another is enjoying the success that we are seeing continue in this country right now.

This is one of the important reasons that I co-founded a congressional Estuary Caucus with Chairwoman Bonamici.

I've always said that the answer is very simple as two steps. One, stop putting bad stuff in it; and two, start removing the bad stuff that is already there.

Thank you for the opportunity to come before you and talking about keeping America's Space Program first in the world.

Today, I ask you to continue that support in order to keep the SLS program on track and ready for its first mission next year.

The Apollo Missions opened the door to other significant accomplishments, like building space shuttles to test the limits of human space flight.

We depend on citizens, local, State, and the Federal government to protect and restore the functions of our lagoon.

Every estuary is having a problem with the algae blooms, and it is not just in this country.