Sam Graves

It raised strong concerns that they would operate outside that bilateral agreement.

A transportation bill I think needs to be a transportation bill, not a Green New Deal.

I was tickled to death during your Presidential campaign when you brought up funding our system of infrastructure, highway infrastructure, through VMT.

I have always said that it is partnership and not partisanship that gets results.

We need to ensure equity between the rural and urban areas, which is a major concern that I have with the reconciliation bill.

I look forward to working together to enact another WRDA into law in 2022.

Thank you, Chair Napolitano and Ranking Member Rouzer, for holding this important hearing.

Many of the provisions included in WRDA 2020 will have positive impacts throughout the country and our economy.

That is why we worked to ensure WRDA 2020 directed the Corps to evaluate ways to reduce flood risks.

I really would encourage you to look at implementation issues problems because it is going to be one thing to have a plan, but if you can't implement it, it is going to be another pretty big problem.

Candidly, I think that that really is something that is related to disasters and should be more so under this committee's jurisdiction.

I want to actually commend you for your statement and questions earlier about all of the different funding streams and resiliency programs across the Federal Government.

Whether it's combating the threat of hurricanes in Florida, severe flooding in my district, or wildfires or tornados in others, resiliency has been the cornerstone of the emergency management work of the Committee.

If somebody has got a great idea for mitigation or resiliency in their communities, we should be incentivizing them to commingle the dollars and get these projects done.

we worked with Congresswoman Plaskett and introduced legislation to actually do a FEMA long-term recovery program

Florida's annual hurricane season has given him significant practical and policy experience with federal disaster preparation, mitigation, and recovery programs.

Thank you, Chair Titus, and thank you to our witnesses for being here today.

We have nearly $100 billion in backlog Corps of Engineers-authorized projects.

I think that that objective is what we really should be focusing on.

Protecting the environment is very much a bipartisan issue.

we actually hit that target nearly 11 years earlier under President Trump.

We are willing to work with our Democratic colleagues on goals of reducing emissions in transportation.

I look forward to working with everyone on this committee to build upon the successes and the lessons learned.

We can all agree that we want clean air and clean water for our communities, and that we must prepare for the challenges posed by severe weather events that are happening with greater frequency and intensity.

You will not find bipartisan support for heavy-handed government mandates, one-size-fits-all policies, or the complete upending of our traditional infrastructure programs to enact excessive climate goals that look more like the liberal…