Nita Lowey: “Failure to provide the adequate resources to address an impending environmental catastrophe risks creating conditions…”

I am delighted to yield 5 minutes to the gentlewoman from California (Ms. Waters), the chair of the Committee on Financial Services.

Congress has the unique opportunity to support the Administration in creating a new strategy that takes a long-term approach.

We cannot allow a return to a familiar and unstable status quo which repeatedly increases violence and animosity while rendering a final resolution of the conflict impossible.

I am pleased to yield 1 minute to the gentlewoman from Washington (Ms. Schrier).