Sam Graves

I look forward to continuing to work with the Corps, General, in the future.

I would expect you all to do everything within your power to lower the level of those reservoirs, just as much as you can, within reason.

If we make flood control the number one priority, then that solves a lot of your priority issues.

Are we going to be able to make repairs to all of the levees to some degree, to any degree, along the river?

Flooding on the Missouri River has become such a regular occurrence, it is really kind of hard to keep up with.

I would hope people would allow for the fact that we have some serious issues out there with people, communities, businesses, you name it, and we want to be able to take care of that and be able to move that money.

But I have to be honest with you. There were three things that happened through this process that seriously undermine my confidence in the Corps' decisionmaking process.

People are looking for guidance. People are looking for someone to step up to the plate and make the big decisions.

Comprehensive tax reform is the way I think to bridge the differences between democrats and republicans.

our ports are extremely critical to the well-being of this Nation.

The most important thing this Committee can do is create an environment in which entrepreneurship is fostered, thereby producing jobs vital to the economic recovery.

I think it is going to hinder us, hinder us considerably.

I met with over 50 small businesses. And I had given them questionnaires, and I asked them to tell me, what regulations do you feel are burdensome?

So I am going to work on figuring out how we can remove bureaucratic red tape to get more capital out to my small businesses.

We don't want the FAA to become the Sky IRS, a collection bureaucracy that is focused on billing agents, collection agents, and auditors.

I think being able to solve some of our relations between employers and employees should be a democratic process.

they are not interested in listening. And that is very frustrating, particularly when you have an industry that could be impacted as greatly as general aviation.

the number of final economically significant rules in the first years of the Obama Administration--this is not widely known--but it is actually lower than the preceding two years and lower than the average under President Bush.

The cost saving strategy can actually help Washington address our out-of-control Federal debt and help create jobs.

I plan to send a letter to the U.S. Government Accountability Office. The GAO requesting a report on the efficiency of trade promotion, the efficiency of the Trade Commission, coordinating committee, and the barriers faced by small…

I want to thank you very much for what you do for our country and, you know, help us fight the battle to get the taxes down, to get regulations down so that you have a truly level playing field.

On Monday, July 18, and Tuesday, July 19, I missed a couple of rollcall votes. Had I been present, I would have voted ``yea'' on Nos. 601, 603, 604 and ``nay'' on No. 602. ____________________

If Members wish to truly reduce the Nation's deficit, then supporting this amendment should be noncontroversial.

We need to take a stand and make sure the work we do this year does not add to the debt.

It is incomprehensible to me that agencies remain either unable or unwilling to comply with the RFA.