This subcommittee hearing has to be on one of the most important, most complicated topics of any subcommittee hearing.

I am begging for your help, because all I need are three words. I don't need any money. I just need permission for the Army Corps of Engineers to operate the three existing dams that are above Nashville.

You can solve my problem with no money and three words: 'flood control storage.'

I urge the committee to work with me to include language that will repair and maintain the lock and dam and keep the pool level that our community needs, while still accommodating the modest fish passage required by SHEP.

Let's give them the freedom to save the city.

I am certain that boaters upstream will accept a minor inconvenience if that is the price they pay for saving Nashville in an extraordinary event.

Black voters and many non-black voters are in a worse place now than they were in the Voting Rights Act was passed in 1965.

That kind of thinking gives freight rail a bad name.

There must be ways to force railroads to work with U.S. taxpayers.

It's frustrating and dangerous.

that is amazing.