Darren Soto

This is obviously not fair, being that we can't even at this current time attain over 40 percent.

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

The Army Corps has been playing games.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

7 years ago this week, on June 12, 2016, our happy town of Orlando was the site of an act of gun violence and terrorism. We lost 49 angels and 53 were injured at the Pulse nightclub shooting. While that was a terrible and violent act, we…

I have no additional speakers and yield back the balance of my time.

SNAP can serve as a vital lifeline for Americans in this situation.

SNAP also helps our most vulnerable Americans: 80 percent of the program are children, the disabled, seniors.

SNAP is effective. It serves over 42 million Americans.

I can't imagine any family, let alone a constituent suffering from disabilities to be able to really live on that.

It has been said often on this Committee, by both sides of the aisle, that we live in the most powerful, most prosperous nation in the history of the world, and that no American family should go hungry.

It's time to modernize and improve health access for our Native Americans. This requires us to have greater urban access through the Indian Health Service and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, which is why we applaud Chair…

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