I want to tell you, General, you and I have had some very candid conversations.

We want to continue working with you to do just that.

depending on the type of resilience project, the estimates range from $3 to $11 in societal benefits for every $1 invested in resilience.

Thank you, Madam Chair. And, Madam Chair, I want to thank you once again for holding this hearing.

Substantial time and effort is spent considering what do we fund locally and what is too large to fund locally.

With that reality, it's necessary that communities have the tools they need to adapt to safely live by water.

The long delays in moving funds from the federal government to communities and citizens in need of help.

We created the coordinating entity at the state level, and we blew up parts of five state agencies.

I agree with virtually all of the recommendations you all have made. But I do think that we need to recognize--and I think you affirmed this--that the states need to step up as well.

It is unacceptable that states are exposing its citizens to danger by ignoring the realities of climate resilience.

I thank the gentleman from Utah for yielding. Madam Chair, I was sitting in my office in a meeting and looked up at the TV screen on C-SPAN, and I watched our distinguished chairman put up a chart that said that for every $1 you invest in…

We certainly do need to get back to that level of safety, or, as I said before, even better.

The role of federal assistance in recovery should not be overlooked.

I'm worried that the Majority's investigation seems to be taking a turn in a direction I don't believe is helpful and could be harmful to the shared goal of safety.

There's a difference between learning hard truths about where we have fallen short or needing to improve and undermining a system that has kept billions of people safe over the years.

This is part of the overall consideration. Yet this bill attempts to gut legally sustainable shark harvesting that is part of the overall fisheries management process and doesn't take into consideration what impact that will have. In…

I thank the gentleman from California for yielding. Mr. Speaker, I want to be upfront. I have caught dozens of sharks in my life. I have released every single one of them intact. I have never gone shark fishing. It was unintentional catch…

They say: ``As long as responsible management is in place, which is currently the case for sharks in the Gulf of Mexico, there is no need for this legislation.'' They say: ``The practice of shark finning is already illegal in the United…

In fact, the director of shark research for that institute says, ``The folks that are pushing the fin ban campaign want to simplify it to this very simple message that if we ban the fin trade in the United States, we save sharks all around…

You have got to integrate an offense and a defense strategy into the Flood Insurance Program.

We need to make sure that we are being thoughtful and that all the policies of this Congress are continuing to move.

No matter what we do with emissions, we are going to continue to see our seas rise and our coastal communities being more vulnerable.

Building to the past will not keep us safe.

How are we going to move in a direction of resiliency when we made so much progress last year with the Disaster Recovery Reform Act?

We have got to get good at resilient living.