before Senator Blunt leaves the floor, let me thank him for his leadership in regard to the provisions in the bill before us that relate to Alzheimer's and the research. As has been pointed out, this is bipartisan. We strongly support the…

I agree with Senator Portman that this committee and this Congress has acted in a very bipartisan manner, recognizing the threat of Russia.

I, along with Senator Van Hollen have put out this idea of laying out ahead of time specifically what the penalties would be.

If we can finally accept the fact that we are in a great power competition with China.

It was a key component of the Cold War, is a fact that both parties understood the price was so high for a nuclear exchange.

the President is handing the Russian government a gift by his regular attacks on the free press

is not Putin's assault on the free and independent press inside Russia and in the Russia periphery emboldened by President Trump's regurgitation of the Stalin-era attacks on American media?

I understand the policy right now, you are assuring this committee that unless Russia changes its behavior, we will not only maintain all of our sanctions, you are looking for ways to strengthen those sanctions against Russia.

we passed just at the end of last month a moratorium on any construction in both the Tiber Watershed and the Plumtree Watershed.

Federal historic tax credits are not well equipped for small Main Street-type projects. They need to be updated to reflect the needs.

It provides tremendous increased resources for water projects in our country.

It just points out one more time the need for structural considerations here, that we are dealing with a watershed problem.

We recognize that we do need structural improvement. And yes, that's very expensive.

we need, obviously, to have a plan.

I think that's one we can move forward with, and there's great interest on the historic tax credits.

I really want to thank Allan Kittleman for his extraordinary leadership on this issue and so many others.

We were able to preserve it in this tax debate, and that wasn't a certainty.

We're going to take a look at all the Federal partnership programs we have under EPA and see how we can leverage that most effectively.

I'm proud to have as my partner in all this Senator Van Hollen.

Well, let me thank all four of you for really putting a lot behind this issue, more than just the individual properties. It's about the history, it's about the future, it's about a community.

So the Environment and Public Works Committee plays a very important role in that regard.

What do you need from Congress in order to move that along?

I thank you for that because we're going to have to be creative.

Thank you very much.

I've talked to all three of those--of my Senators I just mentioned, and they all are interested in learning how Federal Government can be a more effective partner in dealing with the realities that we see on these more frequent floods.