We should move the Corps Budget forward, not cut it by a third.

As we are facing in the Great Lakes, a monumental challenge of additional rainfall that is washing over our watersheds at a much higher rate and taking with it a lot of nutrients.

I urge the Committee to fund adaptation and mitigation efforts through the Army Corps of Engineers.

When I first arrived in Congress there were only two women on the Appropriations Committee.

We must also work together to find a permanent solution to nuclear waste.

I want to personally say thank you for that. I think it is an important step, and I look forward to hearing your remarks here.

I am interested in what might we do? Are there ways where we can have offsite solar power being produced where we can give a credit and it can go into these parks?

We generally get an administration in place that doesn't give us enough money for the Corps knowing how vital this is to people's districts that we will restore it.

I believe some of the most severe poverty in this country and in my district exists in these forgotten places.

I think over a thousand or more implementing agencies locally, 50 states, territories, several federal departments...

I mean, that is simply dangerous for the nation.

I really want to create a sort of Mississippi River Corridor discussion, all the way from the Red River Valley up in Minnesota, all the way down to you in Louisiana.