Political Quotes

“First of all, I want to commend Republicans and Democrats for coming together. This bill is a bipartisan bill. It doesn't mean it is perfect, but it means that we all came together and we worked together to ensure that we are advancing our Nation's water resources. Mr. Speaker, this bill does everything from ecological restoration, to our navigation channels, to flood control, to hurricane protection. This is about the resilience and sustainability of our community and the resilience and sustainability of our ecosystem and our economy. These are projects that we need to be working together on. I want to thank my friend, the chairman, Mr. DeFazio; the ranking member, Sam Graves; as well as the subcommittee--friends--chairman and ranking member, Grace Napolitano and Bruce Westerman. Mr. Speaker, this bill advances important priorities like ensuring section 1043 can be expanded to allow our State and non-Federal sponsors to be a partner with the Corps of Engineers--a true partner-- and lead some sections of the projects; allowing our continuing authorities programs to be expanded; incorporating tools like natural infrastructure into the toolbox of achieving these objectives that we all share; ensuring that we attack--and I want to thank my friend from Florida (Mr.…”