Paul Tonko

We've done this once, and at our organization we believe we can do it again.

I thank the speaker for the opportunity to share thoughts on the floor here this evening. Blue infrastructure, let's get it done. Let's provide America one of her core basic needs.

When it comes to smart, incorporating this work with the appropriate agencies--the EPA and the DEC in my home State of New York--there is a situation very close to my district in Hoosick Falls that is going through a similar contaminated…

Exactly. Can you ill afford any waste of water? But it is not just water coming through those pipes. It is tax dollars flowing with that water. It is treated water. So it is foolish for us to continue along this path of hidden…

Think of the reduction in the quality of life there. We commend Representative Kildee, Representative Lawrence, and all of the members of the Michigan delegation for the work that they have done. Again, to the price tag, the cost, let's…

Lead pipes. The $863 million in the Drinking Water SRF of which I spoke is a lot of money. But when you put it into context of maybe 10 million lead service lines in the country, when you think of infrastructure that is beyond 100 years…

Thank you, Representative Garamendi, for leading us in what is a very important bit of discussion. In a broad term, infrastructure is something that needs our immediate attention because of years of neglect, but it comes to that water…

Representative Garamendi, when we talk about the infrastructure hidden beneath the surface of the streets and scape of our communities, it is hard to imagine wooden pipes along with those decrepit 145-year-old pipes in calcification…

I thank the gentlewoman and the gentleman from New Hampshire, our colleagues who have made available this Special Order this evening through the auspices of the Bipartisan Task Force to Combat the Heroin Epidemic. As co-chair of a similar…

I thank the gentleman for yielding. Mr. Speaker, I ask, why are we not addressing gun violence? People who aren't allowed to fly because they are suspected of terrorism should not be allowed to purchase firearms. I can't believe that in…

the Affordable Care Act is working, and it is working best in States that have embraced the law

As a nation, we are woefully under-producing scientists and engineers.

I demand a recorded vote. The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from New York will be postponed. Amendment No. 23 Offered by Ms. Castor of Florida The Acting…

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page 4, line 5, through page 10, line 3, strike section 1101. The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to House…

My amendment reauthorizes two existing programs, the Weatherization Assistance Program and the State Energy Program. Both of these programs have been operating successfully for many years. The Federal dollars delivered through these…

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: In chapter 2 of subtitle A of title IV, add at the end the following new section: SEC. 4128. WEATHERIZATION…

I demand a recorded vote. The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from New York will be postponed. Amendment No. 3 Offered by Mr. Peters The Acting CHAIR. It is…

I thank the gentleman from New Jersey for yielding. Mr. Chairman, there is strong--certainly bipartisan--consensus that we need to update and modernize our energy infrastructure. Unfortunately, this bill fails to make meaningful advances…

I yield the gentleman an additional 1 minute. Mr. McDERMOTT. They are really betraying a generation of Americans who are already reeling from the impact of all of this. Coal miners and the communities they live in are bearing the brunt of…

I know numerous Members of the House and Senate have expressed their concerns with the pipeline permitting process.

I thank the gentleman from Maryland for yielding. I rise in support of this bill. S. 611, the Grassroots Rural and Small Community Water Systems Assistance Act, reauthorizes a small but important program that delivers technical assistance…

There are many, many people that have legitimate concerns and believe the public has been shut out of the process.

This is incredible momentum for an agreement, and it demonstrates the potential to achieve real progress using a bottom-up, inclusive approach to climate policy.

An agreement in Paris certainly will not solve our climate crisis but is an important step forward.

As we speak, thousands of people have gathered in Paris for the U.N. climate change conference.