Peter DeFazio actually said...

If those cuts are a reality, it would be perhaps the most laughable thing, but serious, unfortunately, about the so-called budget proposals.

I think this is extraordinarily important and should be a bipartisan effort in reauthorizing the brownfields law.

if they want to leverage private investment and they are looking for a program that works, they should be proposing an increase in funding f...

To cut 25 percent of the budget for preparedness grants, to cut the pre-disaster mitigation funds, that is whistling through the graveyard.