All right. Now I have a question, Mr. Collier. Have you submitted a document on this much smaller mine showing it is financially viable to the Corps of Engineers that is a certifiable, real analysis? Yes or no?

This Administration is once again putting private industry wants at the top of its agenda, risking the health and safety of our nation's ecosystem.

Yeah, it is not politicized. Everything is politicized with this administration.

The quality of the Bristol Bay environment is also hugely important to the economy of the region.

I would note that we are wasting a lot of time on a document that has been withdrawn by the Trump administration.

every day is earthquake season, which is a belief that you and I share.

However, this money is incredibly slow getting out the door.

Congress has poured tens of billions of dollars into CDBG-DR over the last decade alone, intended for long-term recovery efforts.

It's hard to believe that we're already at the two-year anniversary of the devastating series of 2017 Hurricanes--Harvey, Irma, and Maria.

It's vital that each of the departments and agencies tasked with recovery have the resources and expertise to fulfill missions.

Delays in disaster recovery can be devastating for the economic well-being of communities.

There's more that needs to be done, and that's why we're here today, to figure out how can we better administer these programs for recovery.

Disasters are not partisan in nature, and we have worked on both sides of the aisle to reform Stafford.

I hope in the future they'll sit at the table alongside their Federal partners and share with us future concerns about challenges.

Now, unfortunately, post-World War II, with the globalization--liberalization, so-called--of trade, the rise of the IMO and the chase around the world to the least regulation and the cheapest possible, most abusable labor in the merchant…

Those who rule the waves rule the world.

Thank you for scheduling this afternoon's hearing to assess China's Maritime Silk Road Initiative and the implications for our national and economic security.

If you think back to Captain Alfred Mahan and his theories, which were backed up by Teddy Roosevelt, we had to guarantee access to international markets as a maritime-dependent nation.

Now, I just--did they really spend $10 million in one city to oppose fingerprint-based background--that can't be----

TNCs are contributing in a major way to traffic congestion.

Today the hearing is on a topic that is having already far-reaching implications on transportation mobility in our country.

I am--you know, I am so angry that they wouldn't show up today.

Their days of operating with little public policy and regulatory oversight in the transportation space are coming to an end.

This hearing should also serve as a wake-up call to companies that have flooded our roadways with disruptive technologies.

I mean, they can--they set the conditions, and they----