I think that is good. There is not time to give the examples that are out there but it is a bureaucratic problem.

Today's first Transportation and Infrastructure Subcommittee hearing is on a subject that is very important to Nation, including my home State of Oklahoma.

I thank you, Senator Cardin, for your contribution here and your partnership in these efforts.

Unfortunately, like most of our infrastructure, our water resources are aging and in great need of repair and upgrading.

The September 2016 floods which impacted Cedar Rapids where the Cedar River crested at a level second to only the 2008, 500-year flood event, caused Cedar Rapids to lose $26 million in sales and production due to being essentially shut…

That has been a problem, Montgomery buoy to lock and dam and the depth issue, for a long, long time.

In Oklahoma, we know these benefits firsthand with ports along the McClellan-Kerr-Arkansas Navigation System connecting Oklahoma with the Mississippi River and with the rest of the world.

I would like to recognize Thursday, May 4, as Waste Management National Career Day and share with you the importance of hiring and promoting women in nontraditional female positions as drivers and technicians. I believe it is important…

You've got to make those considerations.

I think that a lot of these rulemakings are well intentioned, but they end up tying our hands and costing consumers more.

When I was Chairman for a number of years of a committee called the Environment and Public Works, where all the over-regulations came--and most of them were EPA regulations.

I mean, this idea that you have to be forced to do these things--you're the guy that pays for all this stuff.