I thank the gentlewoman for yielding. Mr. Speaker, we have heard a lot of talk about this program. We have heard a lot about affordability, folks talking about being fiscally conservative and making sure that this program is financially…

I first want to thank the chairman, the ranking member, and their staff for their perseverance on this legislation. This is really an amazing accomplishment that I think is going to transform how we plan for, how we prepare for, and how we…

I thank the chairman for yielding. Mr. Speaker, we have Hurricane Florence bearing down on our Nation now. The Carolinas and Georgia are inevitably going to have disaster, destruction, and damages. What happens in the aftermath, as folks…

If I ran a government, I don't know why I would have a redundant system of something I owned, and also have an oversight board that is government, as well.

I really struggle with us dumping--and dumping is not the right word--investing, because I was an advocate for recovery dollars for Puerto Rico.

I don't understand how we are going to come in and make these massive investments, yet we are not going to yield any type of governance changes.

I want to thank the gentlewoman for yielding. Mr. Speaker, this discussion needs to have a reset. It needs to have a reset because I keep hearing people sit here talking about repetitive floods and how there is a certain set of these flood…

I want to thank the gentleman from North Carolina for working with us on this, as well as many staff and members from the Oversight and Government Reform Committee. Mr. Speaker, can you imagine for a minute if you had a medical emergency…

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Add at the end the following: TITLE __--MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS SEC. __. REPORT ON LIMITED ACCESS…

This amendment simply authorizes a GAO study, a Government Accountability Office study, for the purposes of evaluating how we currently manage the red snapper species in the Gulf of Mexico and the South Atlantic. I want to be very clear…

I want to thank the dean of the House, the gentleman from Alaska (Mr. Young), the chairman emeritus, I think, for most committees in the Congress and many other great accomplishments for yielding time and for all the work on this bill. Mr…

I do appreciate the concerns raised by the gentleman from Alaska. I am committed to working with the gentleman and to working with my friend from California in trying to get this amendment in a better posture. I do want to work together…

I thank the gentleman from Florida for bringing this issue up. The lionfish has certainly, according to many reports, been a species that is causing an adverse impact to red snapper. The solution that he proposes here is a solution whereby…

The Federal Government under the Obama administration did not do a good job using those resources.

Things can co-exist. They can. You can have both energy production and you can have a very productive ecosystem.

The energy production on private lands has completely smoked that on Federal lands.

This amendment is designed to largely address, I think, a flaw that this underlying bill addresses in the cost-to-benefit ratio calculations used by the Corps of Engineers, by OMB, and others. This particular amendment is focused on…

I want to thank the gentleman from Pennsylvania for all of his leadership on this important legislation. I want to thank my friend from Oregon and my friend from California for working with us on this, as there is a bipartisan agreement to…

This amendment seeks to provide better information to the Congress, to Federal agencies, and to public entities all over the United States to ensure that we understand the value of investments that we are making, to ensure that we…

I want to thank the gentleman from Ohio for offering this amendment. DMMP's dredged material management plans are plans to manage the sediment that results from dredging activities. It can hold up the navigation of channels for ships and…

I want to thank the gentleman from Pennsylvania for yielding. I want to thank the gentleman from California for offering this amendment. Mr. Chairman, I actually want to discuss some of the provisions that were included in the manager's…

I want to thank the gentlewoman for offering this amendment that requires a study for the use of noise abatement technologies at ports. I think this is a good amendment, and I urge adoption of the amendment. Mr. Chairman, I yield back the…

I want to thank the gentleman from Missouri (Mr. Smith) for offering this amendment. There was something that the gentleman noted in the end that I wanted to make sure legislative intent is preserved here, Mr. Chairman. The gentleman from…

This amendment intends to cut through the bureaucracy to expedite decisions that are being made. In the case of this amendment, it is designed to address an issue in Texas where you have high-volume port projects and there are safety and…

I want to thank my friend from Louisiana, a colleague, for offering this amendment. As the gentleman stated, what is happening right now, the Corps of Engineers is requiring non-Federal entities, like the State of Louisiana and other…