Political Quotes

I can tell you, as a senior member of the Appropriations Committee, I am going to use every financial tool at my disposal to light a fire under every bureaucracy that I can find that is sitting on this money.

I am privileged to have--my constituents have given me the time and the seniority to become a subcommittee chairman on Appropriations, and we all worked together as a team.

By changing these requirements to 120 percent of--changing that requirement after the storm, not only is it--it is unprecedented, it is unfair, it is damaging and destructive to these homeowners.

The Chronicle reports that the day before Hurricane Harvey made landfall--this would be on August 24--that the Corps had an internal forecast that the storm would fill Barker and Addicks to record levels and flood neighborhoods on the…