Sam Graves

We will be closely monitoring the process as a new rulemaking is initiated.

We will be watching this process closely, but the administration's decision to initiate a new rulemaking certainly appears to be a plan to bring back burdensome regulations for our agriculture and business sectors.

This Administration must cast aside ideological biases and carefully consider how this regulatory action will impact those who must live and work under this rule.

An example of the egregious impacts of the Obama administration's WOTUS rule was seen in my home State of Missouri, where the rule gave EPA the authority to regulate over 99 percent of Missouri farmland.

It is important that we learn the views and priorities of the agencies represented here.

Instead, we encourage the Administration to focus its attention and resources on the more pressing economic and international issues confronting our nation such as inflation, the border crisis, the safety of our communities, reopening…

The current rule provided much needed clarification for farmers, homeowners, small businesses, and local governments on the extent of waters covered by the Clean Water Act.

Thank you, Chair Titus, and welcome to the new FEMA Administrator, Ms. Criswell.

All I can say is that is completely bull, that we amended Stafford with DRRA...

We need those standards updated.

I will say it, again, 29 of the 40 reimbursements are outstanding...

I think it made some really important reforms to FEMA--begin this paradigm shift from a reactive Agency to a proactive one.

To see this is really confounding when it is our own sister agency that is the primary cause of the problems.

I don't think we can wait any longer to help restore and preserve, particularly the areas where we know there is potential of 10 times as much carbon sequestration as a terrestrial habitat.

I hope we can work together on some of these programs that you all have fought us on in the past.

I am prepared to close, and I yield myself the balance of my time. Madam Speaker, this is commonsense legislation. It doesn't cost the government any money. And the fact of the matter is, it is already being done in so many other areas of…

I'm pleased the Chair has called this hearing to discuss FAA's oversight of the commercial space transportation industry.

I joined the Chair and Ranking Member of the Full Committee and Subcommittee Chair Carbajal in writing the FMC to urge vigorous enforcement of subtitle IV of title 46, popularly known as the Shipping Act, if any violations are found.

exports represent life and death for my district's economy.

I understand that Fact Finding is now also looking at container shortages in some export markets.

I look forward to hearing if the witnesses agree with these popular explanations of the cargo surge.

The health of U.S. agricultural exports are life and death economic issues in rural districts such as Ohio's Seventh District.

I hope recommendations for industry practices to deal with future cargo surges will emerge from today's hearing.

This Subcommittee has a long, bipartisan history of taking a leading role in reforming federal real estate.

I do want you and the rest of the witnesses here to take a look at my One Federal Decision Act, because I know the regulatory environment can cause expansion or it can cause a lack of expansion in capital products here in the rail industry…