Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. Mr. Speaker, today, I rise in strong support of H.R. 8812, the Water Resources Development Act of 2024, WRDA 2024, a bill that delivers critical water resource infrastructure improvements for communities all over America. Last month, we advanced WRDA 2024 out of the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee with an overwhelming bipartisan vote of 61 yeas to 2 nays. I thank Ranking Member Rick Larsen, Water Resources and Environment Subcommittee Chair David Rouzer and Ranking Member Grace Napolitano for all their hard work in developing this legislation and shepherding it through the committee and now across the line here on the floor. I offer special thanks to Ranking Member Grace Napolitano for her work on the WRDA bill and the many contributions she has made to the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee over the many years that she has served. I am proud that with WRDA 2024, we are continuing the bipartisan tradition of passing a WRDA bill every 2 years, something we began back in 2014. WRDA 2024 has been developed through many months of work and significant participation from Members in this Chamber to address the water resource needs in communities all across the Nation. This bipartisan legislation provides necessary authority and direction to the Corps to carry out its mission to maintain and improve our water resource infrastructure from ports to levees to navigation channels.…”