Lizzie Fletcher

my constituents at home expect our Government to be efficient, effective, and ethical.

I think it would be very useful for us to explore to make sure that the American people are protected when it comes to the potential transfer of this building.

But if some of those questions came to this committee, there might be the opportunity to address some of the things that have shown themselves to be challenges.

I think there is some vague language in this contract about what it means to respond.

I represent the energy capital of the world. I am from Houston. We believe in climate change. We know it's real.

Thank you, that's very helpful. And I just have a little bit of time left.

Collaboration on these issues is critical.

I am glad to be here today as the new Chairwoman of the Energy Subcommittee and am looking forward to leading us through an important and busy year of hearings and legislative action to help provide clean, reliable, and secure energy…

The Office of Science plays a critical role in our fight against climate change.

It is really important for us to address these critical needs as quickly as possible, and we are very grateful for your work and your leadership.

I appreciate Mr. Meadows' partnership on this, and I look forward to working together on many more projects that are of real assistance to the people who we represent. Mr. Speaker, the HELP Act, as we have discussed, is a commonsense…

I, too, thank my colleague, Mrs. Miller, for introducing this bill. And I thank Chairman DeFazio and the subcommittee chairman, Mr. Larsen, for moving this bill through the process. It is important to families across America. And, once…

I, too, believe this is commonsense legislation, and I am pleased to see it brought to the floor today. I support H.R. 4719, and I urge my colleagues to join me in passing this important, bipartisan legislation. Mr. Speaker, I yield back…

Thank you, Chairwoman Stevens. I join you, and Ranking Members Baird and Marshall, in welcoming all of you today for today's joint hearing.

Unfortunately, my constituents in Houston know all too well the wind damage that we see from hurricanes, and the devastating impact that they can have.

I look forward to hearing from our witnesses on how we can better improve the transfer of this research to the building code communities.

I look forward to hearing from our expert witnesses today about how this important technology works...

That's why I worked closely with my colleagues on our Committee, including our Committee Chairwoman, Representative Johnson...

I think we've seen today that in this Congress, this Committee has a strong track record of working together in a bipartisan way to solve problems and to support science, and that is critically important.

We can't ignore that, and we have to be doing exactly what we've been talking about today to incentivize that and really keep this miracle going where we can actually have our cake and eat it too.

Today, on Transgender Remembrance Day, I rise to remember Tracy Single, who was killed in July of this year in my district, the 15th transgender woman of color murdered this year. A music lover with an eye for fashion and an ear for music…

Of course, the Army Corps of Engineers has one of the most critically important jobs in the country.

After spring floods subsided, snow melt added even more water and sediment to the system.

the WRDA 2020 bill that we are working on in this committee is one of the most critically important bills in this Congress for my constituents in Texas' Seventh Congressional District.

So with these principal concerns about participation, about PII, CBI, about getting the best possible science...