"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 ..."
"it is very, very troubling that lots of swaths of this country do not have access to this basic human need"
"I have introduced bipartisan legislation amending the Farm Bill to include a grant program for rural broadband deployment"
"rural broadband is absolutely necessary for our farms to compete to sell their products worldwide"
"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?"
"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."