Political Quotes

“Mr. Chairman, I rise today in support of the Water Resources Development Act of 2016. I want to thank Chairman Shuster for bringing this bill to the floor. The bill will authorize critically important projects for my home State of Louisiana, including the Southwest Coastal Study. Over this past weekend, we remembered the 11th anniversary of Hurricane Rita making landfall. This storm, and subsequently Hurricane Ike, demonstrated the dire need to implement greater measures to protect our coastal communities, many of which were destroyed back then. Congressional authorization of the Southwest Coastal Study will open the door for necessary hurricane and storm damage risk reduction and coastal restoration projects for southwest Louisiana for the first time. Authorization language for this project was included in the manager's amendment, and I want to thank Chairman Shuster for doing so. Additionally, the bill includes vital funding for the Calcasieu Lock project, which is the 10th busiest lock in the Nation, a vital feature of the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway system. The lock facilitates navigation, controls flooding, and prevents saltwater intrusion from the Calcasieu River into the Mermentau River basin, a major agricultural area.…”