Under the Trump administration, there was an order 'one in, two out.' If you made a new regulation, you had to get rid of two existing regulations.

I said repeatedly in this committee that that was not a good system, especially in aviation.

We are the fastest warming community in the country. I think you called it aridification.

I represent the heart of the Las Vegas Valley. We have over 2 million people there and 40 million tourists coming every year, so the water in the Colorado River that goes to supply us is a very important issue.

I think we have a lot to learn from our European neighbors about how to develop this source of energy.

We have seen where outdated regulations really discriminate against women, minorities often.

We have certainly seen a number of people rotate in and out of that position over the last 4 years.

I thank the chairman for yielding. I rise in support of the INVEST in America Act, which focuses on rebuilding our Nation's highways, transit systems, railroads, and water systems. These investments will spur economic development, tackle…

I appreciate a commitment to try to work with me to be sure that we get the full funding.

While the agency has accomplished much since March 2020--including helping state, local, tribal, and territorial partners fully vaccinate more than one hundred and fifty million Americans since January of this year--many of the problems…

We must build back better, not continue to make the same mistakes because it may be easier or cheaper in the short-term.

This idea was introduced by our colleague, Representative Angie Craig, and it is based on very successful Water State Revolving Funds.

Survivors who have lost literally everything should not have to go through a rigmarole to try to prove eligibility for often meager FEMA assistance.

I look forward to hearing how Administrator Criswell and her team plan to convert the priorities in the President Biden's Fiscal Year 2022 budget request into measurable improvements in FEMA's administration of emergency assistance…

It is very refreshing to hear you speak so freely about the impacts of climate change as opposed to erasing the term from the website like we saw happen with some agencies under the last administration.

Maybe we should all go down there on a field trip for this committee.

The apparent inconsistencies and inequities for disaster survivors seeking help are frustrating.

H.R. 539 ensures that at the very least, disaster victims don't pay the price for FEMA's errors.

We already know, and as Chairman DeFazio pointed out, the demand is great for State, local, Tribal, and Territorial governments to invest in infrastructure projects to mitigate some of these known and predictable threats that arise from…

Folks from there, and Honduras especially, are concerned because they are just on hold.

I would like to echo the sentiments of some of the others on this committee and say how relieved and reassured we are to have you in this position, especially after the parade of incompetents who have been before this committee over the…

We would just hate to see those cut. So, I hope that Congress can find a way to restore some of those dollars.

It is harder and harder for us to maybe set the example for how elections should run.

The past 14 months have been overwhelming. Families across this country are struggling to make ends meet.

I am a big fan of the project Brightline West. I have been working to try to get some kind of speed train, passenger train service between here and Los Angeles for many years.