Political Quotes

This bill is really important. The Water Resources Development Act authorizes all the activities of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Mr. Speaker, something that is really key here is that under this chairman we have been able to keep this…

the Federal Government used to just throw billions and billions of dollars in the aftermath of a disaster and didn't pay appropriate attention, in my opinion, on the front end of what we can do to actually avert disasters.

It is no secret--and we talk about it in almost every aviation hearing--that the United States has the gold standard of aviation.

The reason that we purchased Alaska was largely the geography, as well as the natural resources, and the abundance of that State is profound and just critically important.