Sam Graves

I claim the time in opposition to the amendment. The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Missouri is recognized for 5 minutes.

What this amendment does is it strikes some very commonsense regulatory reforms in the bill. The underlying bill requires the Department of Transportation to study whether an increase in minimum insurance levels for intercity buses is…

I want to commend the chairman and ranking member for their ability and, for that matter, all my colleagues on the committee for our ability to be able to work together and come up with what I think is a truly good bill. I rise in support…

I want to associate myself with the words of my colleagues, who just spoke obviously on the need to do this and the need for a long-term transportation bill. I remember Chairman Oberstar working diligently to try to do that in the six…

And my great hope is, as we are trying to solve a problem, we don't try to solve the 'How do we pump more Federal dollars into a system that we know is not squeezing the maximum value out of those dollars today?'

I think our rural roads and bridges demonstrate why we need a strong Federal highways program.

Without the Federal program, rural States would not fund highway and bridge projects that are important to the Nation.

Safety is a significant problem on rural roads, where over half of our fatalities occur.

I am confident, if given the proper resources, they could hit the targets that you put in place.

I would also like to urge my colleagues to support this bill. I think what we are trying to do here is very fitting. I yield back the balance of my time. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the motion offered by the gentleman from…

I yield myself such time as I may consume. Mr. Speaker, I rise in support of H.R. 2559, which names a segment of Interstate 10 between mile markers 535 and 545 in Kendall County, Texas, after Private First Class Milton A. Lee. PFC Milton…

There is a lack of connectivity here. You are being tasked with missions--we described you as a Swiss Army knife at the HASC hearing in regard to all the missions that are being heaped upon you.

I think we have got some priorities that need to be addressed.

I can answer that. No. You still have the ability to review the credit that the State submits to determine if it is actually integral to the project or not.

I also want to thank, in addition to this patch, I want to thank Chairman Shuster and Chairman Ryan for their very hard work towards a long-term reauthorization of the Federal highway bill. Mr. Speaker, my home State of Missouri has nearly…

I just want to say when you work on WRRDA 2014 implementation, I have already seen some implementation guidance come out that I think deviates from congressional intent.

These lives, this loss of lives, first of all, they matter. And second of all, every single one of them was preventable.

I think the Congress has some culpability in this flawed process.

The 1,900 square miles of land lost in south Louisiana is a direct result, a direct result of Federal actions in south Louisiana.

Is the Federal Government going to be treated in the same way in regard to enforcement as private property owners will?

On Friday, February 27, I missed a series of rollcall votes. Had I been present, I would have voted ``yea'' on No. 100 and No. 101. {time} 1100

I represent the south Louisiana areas, Baton Rouge, included.

I agree that taxpayers shouldn't be footing the bill in this case.

the $17 billion Katrina expense that the Corps of Engineers admitted was actually their liability or their fault.

I have got a huge concern with how we are going to move forward.