Mar 8, 2017
One of the best ways to ensure that water is utilized in a beneficial way, instead of being wastefully discharged, is for the Corps of Engineers... to marry their flood control efforts and that mission with their ecological restoration…
Brian Mast
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Brian Jeffery Mast is an American politician and former Army bomb disposal expert who has served as the U.S. Representative for Florida's 18th congressional district since January 3, 2017. A member of the Republican Party, Mast has focused on issues such as national security, veterans' affairs, and fiscal responsibility during his time in office. He is known for his strong stance against the Taliban and has advocated for ensuring that American taxpayer money does not support hostile entities abroad.
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Mar 8, 2017
I get an answer often from the Corps of Engineers when I talk about timelines for getting things done that there is simply not enough manpower, not enough qualified crews to go out there and get some of the projects done, specifically in…
Mar 8, 2017
Personally, it is regularly plagued by massively harmful discharges coming out of Lake Okeechobee, and going out towards the east coast and west coast of Florida.
Mar 7, 2017
The Florida Everglades are dry, they are drying up. They don't have the water that they need.
Mar 7, 2017
These toxins that are released by the algal blooms, they hurt people through air and water...
Mar 7, 2017
These discharges...turn the St. Lucie River and our Nation's most species-diverse saltwater estuary...into an algae-infested toxic waterway.
Mar 7, 2017
When it is not prioritized in that way, we end up causing damage to both ecosystems.
Mar 7, 2017
Army Corps is reluctant to marry their flood control mission at Lake Okeechobee with their ecological restoration mission in the Everglades.
Mar 7, 2017
Should the dike fail, there is also population south of Lake Okeechobee, and that is where people recognize the need for flood control.
Mar 7, 2017
I am here to advocate on behalf of robust funding to for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers...
Mar 7, 2017
One of the things that is not being looked at right now is that lower schedule, that Lake Okeechobee regulation schedule, it is one of the most important things that could be looked at because as every one of those 60-plus projects of…
Feb 13, 2017
I hope that we all came here today with the recognition that Syria must be a priority for the new administration.
Jan 12, 2017
I thank the gentleman from Georgia (Mr. Collins) for including me in this Special Order tonight and for yielding to me and for becoming a friend of mine. Mr. Speaker, it is with tremendous honor and humility that I rise to represent the…
Jan 5, 2017
I thank my good friend from Georgia for yielding. Mr. Speaker, I rise today because the current administration has literally undermined peace with their shameful failure to veto U.N. Resolution 2334. Condemning Israel is condemning the…
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