Sam Graves

On Wednesday, December 7, 2016 and Thursday, December 8, 2016, I missed rollcall votes due to my participation in a flyover demonstration in memorial of the 75th Anniversary of Pearl Harbor at the George Bush Presidential Library in…

I urge all my colleagues to help me and support this legislation. It is a very important piece of legislation. I yield back the balance of my time. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the motion offered by the gentleman from…

I will conclude by saying that I urge all Members to support H.R. 6007. I yield back the balance of my time. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the motion offered by the gentleman from Missouri (Mr. Graves) that the House suspend…

I think the concern is on the part of many members of the committee is sort of the interim strategy.

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page 61, line 4, strike ``or''. Page 61, line 7, strike the period and insert ``; or''. Page 61, after line…

Agencies do contract out to try to ensure that they effectively use our funds.

Congress can't legislate communication and it can't buy WMATA a safety culture.

Everyone wants us to reduce disaster spending. Everyone does. The solution here... is making the principal proactive investments in making our communities more resilient.

I am very concerned that what we are going to see is we are going to see private insurers that come in that start cherry-picking the policies that have the lowest risk.

We need to be using the best information we can in regard to informing decisions.

Private sector, in many instances, could be more efficient than Government can.

I think some of the frustrations--incredible frustrations that we have are being verified in the budget process.

we have pretty strong frustrations in regard to the efficiency of the Corps of Engineers in regard to project delivery.

Does that concern you at all, though, that the State is facing a payback agreement of nearly double what it was before?

You're compounding the problem by leaving these people vulnerable with the belief that they have some authorized project.

The reality is we're still not at that finish line.

the importance of keeping the Super Hornet and the Growler lines operational, which is something that worries me

I just want to note for the record that for the last 2 years the House passed Coast Guard authorization bill did include stronger cargo preference enforcement provisions that were ultimately rejected by the other body.

Look, after I am finished moving to a unicameral system of government, I am going to go to bad attorneys, so we will take care of all this.

Again, what we are trying to do with this program is just allow those drivers to be able to cross the State line. Again, they are already allowed to go an entire State's length within the State. I would ask my colleagues to oppose the…

This amendment would strike a limited pilot program that is authorizing drivers over the age of 19\1/ 2\ to enter into a graduated program to obtain a commercial driver's license. The program is very limited to a number of States and a…

Again, this guts some very important parts of this bill. I urge my colleagues to oppose the amendment. I yield back the balance of my time. The Acting CHAIR. The question is on the amendment offered by the gentlewoman from Florida (Ms…

This amendment literally just guts some very crucial reforms to this bill. What this amendment does is strikes a section in the bill that requires the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration to remove from its Web site those compliance…

Although I don't oppose the amendment, I ask unanimous consent to claim the time in opposition. The Acting CHAIR. Is there objection to the request of the gentleman from Missouri? There was no objection. The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman is…

This particular amendment really is in the jurisdiction of the Oversight and Government Reform Committee. They are in favor of the amendment, so we are going to urge our colleagues to support it. We are not going to oppose it. I yield back…