My heart goes out to the folks in this area, and my thanks go to our Federal responders.

We are certainly not in the dark on this issue.

This project would allow larger ships that can now transit the wider and deeper Panama Canal to access the Port of Corpus Christi Channel.

This project has been continuously delayed by bureaucracy and what I believe to be the prior Administration's hostility to oil and gas.

We received the good news that the Trump Administration proposed $4.8 billion for the Corps' civil works budget.

I was completely exonerated by OCE and the settlement agreement has been paid. I'm doing my best and I'm going to hand a check over this week to probably Speaker Ryan or somebody and say, look, here is the amount of my settlement. Give it…

While I 100% support more transparency with respect to claims against members of Congress, I can neither confirm nor deny that settlement involved my office as the Congressional Accountability Act prohibits me from answering that question.

Unfortunately, through the previous administration--the previous administration insisted on a public-interest review as a reason to delay projects I think.

I do ask that you take it back to Secretary Perry and the folks at the DOE to consider modifying the report to make it consistent with the law.

Over the next week he would slowly move up the coast, destroying homes, communities, and lives.

There is some concern that our doing oversight at this time might further slow the recovery efforts.