David Rouzer

Let's hope that we do.

WRDA is a critical legislative vehicle to meet the water resources needs in our communities nationwide.

Every 2 years since 2014, Congress has passed a bipartisan, consensus WRDA bill into law, helping communities across the country.

WRDA is one of the most important pieces of legislation we work to draft and pass here in the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee.

Today's hearing marks the second in a series of hearings this subcommittee is holding in preparation for the Water Resources Development Act of 2024.

Submissions for the Record by Hon. David Rouzer: Letter of December 13, 2023, to Hon. David Rouzer, Chairman.

It is nearly impossible to balance the budget when unelected bureaucrats issue costly rules and spend money without proper oversight.

Democrats broke the bank last Congress by spending over $550 billion in the name of environmental justice.

You would hope that no Republicans, Mr. Chairman, would support supplementals without offsets, because that would demonstrate that the Republican Conference, the Republican majority, doesn't take serious the greatest fiscal crisis we ever…

It takes discipline. It takes commitment and public service that we all signed up to be here for.

Americans across the country balance their budgets and ensure their spending is within their means, and it is past time the Federal Government does the same.

This unprecedented debt crisis means that going forward Congress will have to take the tough votes to lower our debt.

Eighty-six percent of the reductions that we brought forward were defeated by Republicans.

Politicians can't fix it. We come up with policy.

There is no way in hell I could run the dealership the way this business is run.

Do you have the political courage to do what needs to be done?

D.C. must live within its means, it must recognize that economic success comes from unleashing the hard work of Americans.

Washington is sacrificing the livelihood of our children, our grandchildren, and national security of our great country to claim partisan victories for reelection.

This resolution would have prohibited the total outlays for fiscal years from exceeding our total receipts.

My constituents sent me to Washington to bring common sense solutions to an institution that can't stop swiping the credit card and racking up our national debt.

We can no longer leave this issue to chance and just hope it goes away.

Without reforms immediately we will never be able to honor the commitments made by this government to our seniors and those most vulnerable.

Continuing resolutions are nothing more than lazy rubber stamps of previous years' spending and priorities that do nothing to course correct the devastating path that we are on.

I am infuriated. I am disappointed. I am very frustrated.

Our window to restore common sense to our Federal budget is slowly closing, and we must act before our kids and grandkids pay the price for our government's abdication of fiscal responsibility.