Political Quotes

Mr. Chair, I rise to offer my amendment to reduce funding for the Southeast Crescent Regional Commission, the SCRC, to prepandemic, fiscal year 2019 levels. Yet again, this commission serves as a duplicative slush fund for parochial…

Madam Chair, during previous debates on this issue, mistruths were spread about the impact of this policy change on the water reservoirs that serve New York City. These claims are false and easily disproved by the facts, which I am going…

Madam Chair, I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the following: Sec. __. None of the…

Mr. Chair, that might be all well and good, but last year, the commission's inspector general--not Perry, not this Congress, the inspector general identified the massive increase in the commission's funding over recent years as a threat to…