Marty Walsh

Infrastructure is key to the future, being competitive is going to be very important.

Part of the delay was the funding stream that came in for that particular project that would start and stop.

WRDA 2007 requires an independent technical review of our work on particular projects that are over $45 million or are contentious.

The word '100-year' storm is actually a misnomer.

Reclaiming my time, again, I would say Congress, in today's day and age, where we hit $16 trillion in debt last week, Congress, like all institutions in this country, needs to figure out how to work more efficiently and save hard-earned…

I appreciate the concerns of my colleague, and I would only note that new technology, I think, has made it easier to teleconference and communicate remotely. This not only would save money, which is important, but it has already and will…

Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and thank you, Ranking Member Velazquez. As you know, the SBA has proposed radically new size standards for small business government contracting that do not just alter the size standard for each industry, but, in…

I think it is important that we have something very strict and by law that we can operate off of.

I also want to thank Chairman Upton and Ranking Member Waxman of the full committee as well.

I also want to thank Chairman Pitts and Ranking Member Pallone for your willingness to address these issues.

I would just hope that that terminology changes to be the one plan, the consensus plan, as opposed to the Corps plan.

It is absolutely essential that we have from the local governments what they want for us to formulate.

I will be quick. The gentleman refers to this as emergency funding. It is not. That is incorrect. The funds are designated pursuant to section 402 of the budget resolution which is for ``contingency operations related to the global war on…

If I understand, there will be other points of order that would further affect the appropriation, generally appropriations for this war on terror.

Reclaiming my time. While the funds may not be spent this year, they will be spent. They are needed to implement this BRAC round. We learned from the last BRAC round that if we delay the initial investment, it costs far more in the long…

Now, Mr. Chairman, I would yield 30 seconds to my colleague, Mr. Barrett of South Carolina, for a brief statement.

At this time, I would yield 3 minutes to the distinguished gentleman from Colorado, the chairman of the Readiness and Military Construction Subcommittee on the House Armed Services Committee, Mr. Hefley, for 3 minutes.

The Senate attached this 2005 funding to an 2006 bill, which will not take effect within the 2005 year. If they take up this bill on a stand-alone basis, the President can sign it tomorrow. {time} 1945

The gentlewoman from Ohio has changed the language to comply with the existing legislation, so I have no objection to it, and I withdraw my reservation of the point of order. {time} 1345

I am aware of those facts and of the significant cost to society in the form of dollars and the quality of life. I am also recently aware that research being done in the gentleman's district may lead to significant changes in how we treat…

I thank the gentleman. I am aware that the Department of Defense wants to revise the budget request for this program. I am also aware that the Department does not want to submit a budget amendment. The gentleman from Kentucky is correct…

I understand the Senate version of the FSC/ETI bill includes the 'Green Bonds' proposal. As the gentleman knows, the Green Bonds proposal is intended to spur investment in building design and technologies which reduce energy consumption…

When we split, half our group went to Mosul, half went to Kirkuk. We met with the city council and the mayor of Kirkuk. The mayor spoke first, and the first thing he said in a very emotional way, he was a Kurd, he said, I want you to go…

Just briefly, to correct a point, there are no cuts for the homeless in this bill. There is an increase of $35 million. There are no cuts in section 8 housing vouchers, there is an increase of over $900 million. But if we accepted this…

Yes, I agree. NSF needs to make implementation of the Cybersecurity Research and Development Act a priority.