Bill Flores: “I urge my colleagues to vote for this commonsense amendment, and I yield back the balance of my time.”

If these projects do not receive Federal attention, they may end up costing the Federal Government a substantial amount of funding in reconstruction and emergency response.

The tragedy of today's hearing is that the majority of this Committee and the House of Representative has buried its head in the sand.

For too long, Governor Inslee and others have turned a blind eye to the issues in their own backyard.

These projects could enjoy a more streamlined, proactively managed approach to avoid potentially catastrophic mishaps.