"It is my understanding also that I think as of last week there were over 9,000 containers that were sitting at port facilities in Puerto Rico."
"We need smarter asset management and increased efficiencies in our water systems, and to do so, we need to incentivize the adoption of new and innovative technologies that will cut costs and improve w..."
"My recommendation is to put them back under the control, if not under FEMA, at least under the control of FEMA."
"Let's buy our risk down by making smarter investments on mitigation."
"I would like to hear a commitment from you that we are going to figure out how to work through this and develop an interim strategy."
"I think that there is just complete support among the members of this committee about our strong concerns about the lack of icebreaking capability in the United States compared to other Arctic nations..."
"If there were an incident up there, we have already seen Russian aggression up in the Arctic area. Their capabilities, if I remember right, are--what is it?--40 times more than we have in the United S..."
"We need to address the very real affordability concerns raised by the communities in a way that does not weaken the Clean Water Act protections."
"I think the concern is on the part of many members of the committee is sort of the interim strategy."
"Congress can't legislate communication and it can't buy WMATA a safety culture."
"Agencies do contract out to try to ensure that they effectively use our funds."