Brian Mast: “I thank both the chairs and the ranking members for their work on this piece of legislation and, specifically, helping…”

“I thank both the chairs and the ranking members for their work on this piece of legislation and, specifically, helping to combat some injustices. Injustice number one is this bill works to prohibit once and for all, finally getting rid of all the toxic discharges out of Lake Okeechobee into what we call our northern estuaries in Florida. That is fixing injustice number one. Injustice number two that this bill specifically addresses is, with those toxic, poisonous waters there are Corps of Engineers personnel that are working on top of those, sometimes for 8 or 10 hours a day, for weeks or months on end. And it actually requires that a letter be put in the file of those military personnel denoting their exposure to this so if something happens to them down the road they don't have to fight like so many of our servicemembers have to fight to get the appropriate care. So I thank them for their work in helping to fix injustices in this specific piece of legislation. Mr. DeFAZIO. Mr. Speaker, I again inquire as to the remaining time just to check here. We are tight on time. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Oregon has 4 minutes remaining. The gentleman from Missouri has 10\1/2\ minutes remaining. Mr. DeFAZIO. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from Louisiana (Mr. Carter).”