this might be one of the big areas that we would go ahead and address quickly on a bipartisan basis, because there is bipartisan support for infrastructure.

it has been a bipartisan

Well, thank you very much.

So that is just one example of a real success story there.

I come to the floor to speak about a troubling issue for our Navy, our national defense, and a problem that should be of concern to Members of this body. Our Navy pilot training installations, including Naval Air Station Meridian in my…

I am not confident that either of those two conditions would actually be obtained.

I think the previous administration was preoccupied, it became preoccupied with other problems in the Middle East, with Russia, continuing constraints on defense spending.

I was saddened to learn that an American member of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine was killed this past weekend by a landmine. Joseph Stone was carrying out his duties in territory controlled by Russian-backed separatists…

I agree that the general concept, the idea that we need to focus more of our resources on the Asia-Pacific, was the right one.

the Commission's efforts [to promote broadband deployment in unserved and underserved areas] must accurately target every area that is in need of support so that no one is left behind.

I rise to express my strong support for Judge Neil Gorsuch, to say that I will proudly vote in favor of his confirmation tomorrow, and to express my confidence that history will judge this nominee to be an outstanding Associate Justice of…

I hope we get an infrastructure bill. I hope you're all enormously successful because that will mean the economy is successful.

Well, let me shift briefly in the 2 minutes I have to this issue of on-dock railway access.

I've taken a strong position, though, against the idea of forcing the Twin 33 trailers on states.

I was encouraged to hear that Secretary Chao has reinstated the Sea Year Program aboard commercial vessels for midshipmen at the Academy.

For the record, I'm told by staff that the FBI report has been completed as a matter of course.

It cannot be allowed to happen.

I'm determined that, as a Member of the Board of Governors at the Academy, that that continue.

S. 518 provides some relief in the form of technical assistance and training to assist small communities in securing the necessary technical expertise to improve and protect their water resources.

Many of these small communities often face significant challenges in complying with Federal rules, and it is also costly.

I am at this moment here to talk about S. 518, which deals with sewer systems that serve fewer than 10,000 people.

Uniform is absolutely the right approach to take.

Some critics claim the agency has little water pollution enforcement expertise, and, instead, mainly deals with homeland security issues.

At sea, it is only the Coast Guard.

We do not have invasive species entering our waterways.