The aggregate investment that we need over time is $1.7 trillion, by 2050.

What difference does it make if it is using outside Government resources to do something, to make an approval on a public project, whether that resulted from a natural disaster or otherwise?

Thanks to the projects of both the Arkansas River and the Red River Basin, more than $500 million in damages were prevented in Oklahoma, Kansas, Arkansas, Texas and Louisiana after historic rainfall this past spring.

If we as a country ignore the problems facing our waterway, port, and flood control infrastructure, those benefits and jobs will be at risk.

This is kind of interesting, because historically we have always wanted to have one every 2 years.

Both Senator Boxer and I have made passing the WRDA bill in 2016 a top priority.

The American people have a right to expect us to make sure that their water is safe when they turn on their faucets.

It is important that your members be aware to use their influence on members to make this very popular program.

I am glad that we are--there are so many people out there and they think that we are just--that Israel is always the beneficiary of everything that goes on. That is not true at all.

Our potential adversaries are pursuing advanced weapons development not seen in decades.

When we were initially starting, the first Obama budget in 2009, it cut missile defense by $1.4 billion.

Do you think Putin really needs provocation? Or isn't he going to do it anyway?