We need to start looking at the resiliency of the tax base of these communities.

I also caution that it needs to be means-tested because we have a lot of people who don't live on the coast...

In 2012, as we were getting ready to go to New Jersey for the infamous non-hug with Governor Christie with President Obama...

It doesn't make sense. It doesn't. And, obviously, not thoughtful policy has been progressed by this House within the last few months.

I supported the intention of it, but I think it was the right move to withdraw and think a little bit more about how to properly do it.

We all agree that our coastal communities are more vulnerable.

We are seeing in the 850 panhandle right now Jackson County, Marianna, and other places that their property values have decreased.

It has been repealed. They are studying it. They have been studying it now since 2017.

Our problem was we had no tools to say what these impacts looked like and then go, well, what should we be building to?

This is an area where we should all be working together. This isn't a fight over who is right, who is wrong.

Unfortunately if you don't give time-sensitive funding to these projects, many of them will just slip by the wayside.

Let me just say, at the end of the day, what we need to be doing is we need to be looking at this through the eyes of the disaster victims. We need to be looking at this through their eyes. Having a bill that codifies under law, locks in…

I thank the gentleman from North Carolina for yielding. Mr. Speaker, I appreciate the gentleman from Texas, the gentlewoman from Missouri, and everybody working on this. We have had one of the most intense periods of disasters in American…

At the end of the day, we all want the same thing--strong, resilient and affordable infrastructure that can protect residents and businesses as well as the environment and economy--while making sound fiscal decisions.

I couldn't agree more. Last Congress we passed the Disaster Recovery Reform Act where, for the first time, we actually established a resiliency definition and standard within FEMA for how we rebuild and try to provide ample funds to do so.

We have a $100 billion backlog.

It passed out of the Transportation Committee--I will say it again, the committee with disaster experience, with disaster jurisdiction--passed out of that committee unanimously. Mr. Speaker, at the end of the day, what we all need to be…

It doesn't make sense and it is contrary to what this committee has been doing.

This is about people. That's truly why we are here, and we can't lose sight of that throughout this process.

Agriculture is a very important opportunity, very important natural resource managers that have the opportunity, as I indicated, to be significant participants in our efforts to sequester greenhouse gases.

Sometimes the truth hurts.

the US should move quickly to get 'first mover advantage' and scale the adoption of stacks of soil health practices.

Congress should not attempt to reorganize a system from scratch.

I am going to assume that you all wouldn't have ridden on an airplane if you believed that something was wrong.

Thank you very much. I yield back.