Kirsten Gillibrand

We have hundreds of dams and levees that are critical to communities across the State which must be properly maintained to ensure those communities are protected from flooding.

It also authorizes the Great Lakes Coastal Resiliency Study to protect communities like those that are experiencing devastating flooding last summer along Lake Ontario.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman and Mr. Ranking Member, for holding this hearing, and for your bipartisan leadership in drafting this bill, the America's Water Infrastructure Act of 2018.

Paperwork requirements are stupid. So please relook at that.

Surely they deserve the USDA's support as well.

I hope you will come to New York to meet with some of our smaller producers so you can see and understand why these pricing programs are not working and why the insurance programs are not working for small dairy farms in America today.

I have introduced bipartisan legislation amending the Farm Bill to include a grant program for rural broadband deployment

It is very, very troubling that lots of swaths of this country do not have access to this basic human need

Rural broadband is absolutely necessary for our farms to compete to sell their products worldwide

If pollution that migrates from a point source to rivers and lakes through groundwater is not covered under the Clean Water Act, what impact would that have on communities that are living with this toxic contamination?

How difficult is it to clean up PFC contamination once it reaches a river or lake, and what can be done to prevent further contamination?

What is the impact of PFC contamination to those jurisdictional waters?

PFOA is present in the groundwater near Hoosick Falls and Petersburg, New York, as a result of a plastic manufacturing plant nearby.

The SBIR and STTR programs support our ability to work with small business across the nation to develop cutting edge solutions for difficult problems facing our warfighters.

Do you believe the Defense Department is making full use of the SBIR-STTR and RIF programs to leverage small businesses in advancing the development and production of technologies?

Do you see an expanded role for MD5 in addressing the 'valley of death' concerns faced by our military?

I believe the Manufacturing USA Network is critical to ensuring the United States remains a global leader in manufacturing the cutting-edge technologies needed for our national defense.

Far too many American start-ups working on cutting-edge technologies with applications important to our defense mission are having a difficult time accessing investment to scale their research to production.

We believe there is no medically valid reason, including the diagnosis of gender dysphoria, to exclude transgender individuals from military service.

What would be the safety rationale for not requiring sites specific analysis when allowing a decommissioning plant to significantly reduce its emergency preparedness activities?

I am concerned that the regulatory analysis published by the NRC in January 2018 proposes to relieve licensees of the regulatory burden of providing site specific analysis or determining when a decommissioning plant is no longer subjected…

These cyber attacks on nuclear companies and facilities are deeply alarming.

I was disappointed to see the budget request would propose a 50 percent cut to the LLE in fiscal year 2019 and shut it down completely in three years.

The work of hundreds of scientists and researchers would end and efforts to achieve ignition... would be considerably slowed if not abandoned.

We already know we have foreign adversaries who are hammering it daily.