"Congressman Patrick McHenry (R-NC) and Earl Blumenauer (D-OR), as well as the ranking member of this committee Congresswoman Nydia Velazquez (D-NY), introduced H.R."
"I see this blunt one-size-fits-all approach as penny wise and pound foolish."
"I would like to acknowledge Subcommittee Members Diane Black and Earl Blumenauer whose bipartisan leadership on this issue led to the 2015 announcement of the MA V-BID model test."
"Well, I am hopeful that we won't ignore the areas of controversy, but I subscribe wholeheartedly to the notion let's start where we can, establish the principles, spread the benefit."
"we have a country that is falling apart, and we are falling behind."
"I think this is an area that we can actually find bipartisan agreement."
"The notion of the potential for scammers taking advantage of our constituents, people who are looting the treasury because they have found ways to be able to penetrate the system and get fraudulent re..."
"we have dramatically reduced funding. Every year costs of households, businesses, and government goes up."
"Having the drought in the countryside, not having access to water, moving people to the cities created a situation."
"Water instability is a threat to our security, compromising cross-border conflicts, leading to famine."
"Having disease and not having drinkable water in this flashpoint in the Middle East is going to be destabilizing for Israel and for the United States."
"We have talked about it before. Other people can conjure things up and be aspirational, but you folks have to allocate the dollars."