These studies are a critical step in protecting natural resources preserving history and culture in Hawaii and across the Pacific.
Thank you to the chairman and the ranking member. Thanks, ranking member, for your accommodation.
Parks are a wise investment supporting hunting, fishing, camping and other outdoor recreational activities.
This is really a Federal responsibility. This is something we're going to have to appropriate the dollars to help to solve.
Today the Subcommittee on Water and Power is holding an oversight hearing on aging water infrastructure in the United States.
Unfortunately this situation hasn't improved much in the last 5 years.
This is a bipartisan issue. The need to repair our aging infrastructure in water and elsewhere applies to each of our States.
I think what you're hearing from this committee is that those data bases need to be a little more than internal and a little bit more than a...
We do need a national water strategy as well as a national infrastructure strategy.
In fact we just witnessed a near disaster right here in the Nation's capital when water in Prince George's County was nearly shut off to ten...
In 2008 this subcommittee held a similar hearing and we learned then that the maintenance backlog for the Bureau of Reclamation's water faci...