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

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

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

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

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.

I am delighted to bring my bill, H.R. 1917, the Hazard Eligibility and Local Projects, or HELP Act, to the floor today, and I thank Congressman Pappas, and I thank my colleagues on both sides of the aisle on the Transportation and…

As Councilmember Fogle mentioned earlier, when industry and localities can work together, it is a win-win for all of us.

I have appreciated hearing so many of the witnesses and my colleagues speaking out in support of my bill

Congress really has answered that call by providing significant broadband funding in the recent relief packages.

But part of the reason that I introduced this bill and that it is important that we are talking about it today is that I am concerned that with this incredible level of funding will come a lot of applications to deploy the…