On the recordSeptember 28, 2016
I thank the gentlewoman. Mr. Speaker, I also want to make mention of the Flint dollars. We have worked very hard with the Michigan delegation on the issue of Flint funding. I am glad that the amendment of Mr. Kildee and others passed in the WRDA bill, but we must deal with that question as well. Where we are is that we are keeping hardworking employees and government services going. We are helping our veterans. We are making sure health services are going forward. We are making sure the necessary facilities that our public uses will be open. What a shame to have closed a number of these facilities that are so important. As we go forward, in coming from Houston and in having experienced the tax day floods and the Memorial Day floods, I am looking forward to working with the appropriators for funding--that will help us do a massive study on the bayous in the region--with an amendment that I have submitted to the energy and water bill. Finally, I would say that it is time that we recognize that government worked for the American people, and what we have to do is not borrow to pay Paul. We should have given the $1.9 billion in Zika funding. It is $1.1 billion, but I think we can do better, and I hope we will do so.
