John Bel Edwards: “I hope that America sees that what they saw in New Orleans is not just in New Orleans. It's in rural areas in the South.…”

Every year since 1996, Congress has failed to pass our annual spending bills on time. Every year since 1996, despite work still left to be done, August rolls around and Congress goes home, kicking the can down the road and leaving funding…

The Chair thanks and congratulates Chairwoman Bice. The Chair now invites two former Members, Dennis Ross of Florida and Cheri Bustos of Illinois, to offer remarks.

We are patrolling, and there will be consequences for breaches of the law.

And it's capped at 375 million that we get to share no matter.