Garret Graves: “Delays in the NEPA process are costing billions of dollars in energy investment.”

I want to publicly thank Representative Hoyle for her work on the bill. It is a great bill. Mr. Speaker, I yield 5 minutes to the gentleman from Mississippi (Mr. Ezell).

I don't have any more speakers, I am prepared to close, and I reserve the balance of my time.

I think that is fair, and I think they deserve it.

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.