Proposals for a Water Resources Development Act of 2022: Members' Day Hearing

we in Congress and in the government need to do that imagining.

We had three 500-year floods three years in a row, one of which was the result of Hurricane Harvey.

Nature-based solutions are very important to my constituents in Houston.

Texans have spent more than a decade imagining, designing, and working to address the historic events that we have experienced in our recent past.

I am proud and excited of the work we did together in the Water Resources Development Act of 2020.

There are two main drivers for our priorities, and I know they are the priorities of this committee and of this Congress.

Authorizing the Coastal Texas Study and the Port of Houston policy request is in our national security interest and in our national economic interest.

we were very focused on the PFAS in the firefighting foam used to fight those very difficult fires to put out, and the resulting PFAS contamination that we found down into Galveston Bay.

Thank you so much, Chairwoman Stevens, and, of course, to Chairwoman Sherrill, who just left, as well as to everyone who's here today.

I want to thank my colleague Dan Kildee for his work on the PFAS Task Force, which I'm very glad to be a part of as well.