Kurt Schrader: “In the real world here we need to compromise.”

I am hopeful that the committee's work here will build on that success to tackle the many backlogged projects that are sadly still unfunded even with increased investments.

Failure of this dam due to an earthquake would be devastating for a variety of reasons: loss of life, impact on local economy, and loss of critical water supply.

We need to offer a more consistent way of providing this critical service to all our small ports.

I do not believe we should be cutting the defense budget like some folks have talked about.