"The upcoming Water Resources and Development Act is critical for my coastal district, and I want to discuss a few issues and projects that are of concern for Texans back home."
"When it comes to poor construction made by the Corps in preconstruction engineering and design, the private sponsor should not have to pay to correct the Federal Government's mistake."
"Should the Calhoun Port Authority begin construction to correct the Corps design, current law treats the construction project, however, as a new project, and requires that the port authority share the..."
"Reining in our debt and our deficits only gets harder, the longer we wait."
"American taxpayers in future generations deserve honest accounting, not more gimmicks that attempt to paper over our huge and unsustainable deficits."
"We do not have the luxury of ignoring the true cost of our spending decisions."
"When it comes to maritime commerce, Texas ranks second in the nation and handles over 20 percent of all tonnage in the nation."
"we spent I think $7 billion last year from Congress, and it's the picture of this bucket that we're pouring into, but there's a hole in the bottom going into a bucket that China's sitting there"
"It is a key function of our republic, a republic of the people, by the people, for the people of having representative government."
"I've always thought that the answer to that is for America to meet the challenge, because we will always do it a lot more responsibly than many of the other countries across the pond, so to speak, who..."
"The world's demand for energy is growing. I have always believed that the solution to the challenges we face is advancements in technology rather than us all retreating from the industrial age."