Marcy Kaptur

I would urge you to revisit that part of your budget, and, believe me, I am going to try to help you.

This really is a very dangerous proposal with USGS because when the crisis happened just so you know, and I was flailing around on the weekend trying to find the right person in the Federal government to help us understand what level of…

I think enlivening the spirit of the American people, if you give them a target, they will reach it.

In 1987, I began the long quest to build a World War II Memorial here in Washington, and it took us 17 years.

But in listening to the conversation this morning, and thank you for your testimony and for your commitment to our country, you referenced an $11 billion backlog of----

I want to thank Congresswoman Pingree very much for that.

I just wanted to say that I would very much appreciate your review of my bill on a Civilian Conservation Corps.

I would just, since the Secretary is here and he has been very gracious with his time, I wanted to just ask you...

If you go through one of the communities I represent it is like you take a razor and you just zzzzzz, you go right, and they are gone. It is astounding.

Could I ask, on the emerald ash borer and the loss of ash trees, do you know, sir, how many we have lost already?

We need your help, and we need it fast.

We are not doing our job, and we have got to figure out a way to do it.

I have a bill to recreate the Civilian Conservation Corp to help the whole country, including our area.

My home community of Toledo, Ohio, which has water systems that serve a region of half a million to 750 million people plus businesses was shut off two and-a-half years ago for 3 days because a very wicked little toxin called microcystin…

Lake Erie has the least number of trees surrounding it of any of the Great Lakes.

If we have to beg the private sector and go to Goldman Sachs and all these people that ripped off the people of the United States and beg the money, I am willing to do it.

That is a cut of 26 percent over the last 3 years. That is in my judgment enormous.

I think we need a bridge financing package.

I just have to say how important I believe an infrastructure bill is to this country.

I want to thank Congresswoman DeLauro for her stellar leadership on the trade task force and the work that it has done. The hours and hours of effort on defeating the Trans-Pacific Partnership, the great assemblage that she gathered and…

I thank Congressman Cicilline. He hit it right on the head. We ought to be exporting goods, not importing this many more than we export, and we ought to be creating jobs right here. I am sure he has seen companies from his community, from…

I think it is a mistake. And it is certainly a mistake to sell it at low prices.

We have real enemies. And we can't anticipate what will happen in the future.

I do want to make a comment about it. And I don't want us to be a country that is penny-wise and pound-foolish.

And I really believe that the sort of current solution, which is let these sick fish fall on the States, isn't working.