The Army Corps has been playing games.

It is my utmost priority to ensure beach renourishment continues in my community, and that is exactly why I am here before you today.

Nuclear power is the engine to make that a reality and take it from the talking points to something tangible for all Americans.

It is going to impact our tourism.

This bill is simple. It adds harmful algal blooms to be eligible for major disaster funding under the Stafford Act.

Investing in infrastructure is key to our economic recovery.

I am also asking that this year's WRDA bill include my legislation to raise the funding cap of the Las Vegas Wash program.

I ask that the Chairman and Ranking Member consider my request for inclusion in this year's WRDA reauthorization to protect the people of Queens.

Not only do the residents of Selma deserve to be protected from flooding, but the nation deserves to have this historically significant site protected.

thank you, Ranking Member Napolitano, for your time today. I really appreciate it.

Thank you, Chairman James and Ranking Member Napolitano, for the opportunity to talk about our WRDA projects this year.

I genuinely appreciate the opportunity to testify before the Committee today on the critical issues impacting my constituents.

For too long, these priorities--which only grow more pressing for Southern Nevada with each passing day--have been regarded as ancillary or secondary to other responsibilities of the Corps.

Nuclear is the cleanest option in America's energy arsenal.

This bipartisan bill would provide mandatory funding to purchase development rights via conservation easements from private and Tribal landowners.

We do not need a statute to give Congress powers it already has under the U.S. Constitution's territorial clause.

I would humbly suggest that rather than having the American people pay these costs, we ask the big oil and gas companies to set aside just a portion of the $200 billion-plus of profits that they are making.

The big oil companies last year, the six largest, made $219 billion of profits.

This is a socialist bill. This bill would require all of us, the American taxpayers, to spend our taxpayer money to clean up the messes made by the oil and gas companies.

Thank you, Chairman Stauber, for this opportunity to present our Sinkhole Mapping Act, and I also appreciate Ranking Member Ocasio-Cortez.

I have signed on to a bill that has been introduced here in Congress that would require the oil and gas companies, if the price of gas gets too high, to return some of those profits back to the American people.

I want to commend the managers of the House Department of Defense Fiscal Year 2024 Appropriations bill for including my amendment No. 122 in En Bloc 3, to provide a $5 million increase within the Air Force RDT&E account, to the Air Force…

I thank the gentleman from Maryland for this great opportunity. Last Congress was the most productive in over 50 years. With the leadership of President Biden and Democrats in the House and Senate, and with the help of some moderate…

Florida Congressman Soto is a co-sponsor of the legislation, and we thank both congressmen for addressing this issue.

I was unable to vote today due to unforeseen personal circumstances. Had I been present, I would have voted ``yea'' on rollcall No. 272 and ``yea'' on rollcall No. 273. ____________________