"These weather events, with climate change are getting more and more frequent, and it is more and more urgent that we try to make our systems resilient."
"We need to look at USDA as one of the ways to help our water systems understand how to do stuff in a proactive manner."
"These well-functioning water systems, as you all know, are absolutely essential to rural communities, the health and the safety and the economy of rural communities."
"I listened to you, Senator Tuberville. One of the things I thought I heard you say was trying to target that money to the places that need it the most, in the rural areas."
"If there's not credibility among the public for the institutions that are here to serve it, Congress, Supreme Court, the Presidency, then things fall apart."
"I'm worried about judicial abuse of legislative power by refusing to uphold a bipartisan campaign finance law sponsored by John McCain, among others, Russ Feingold, that was intended to restore credib..."
"Do you think they can maintain credibility with the public, or even deserve to, if they won't disclose when they are the beneficiary of extraordinarily generous and completely out-of-reach vacations?"
"I'm worried about how that's eroded with the unwillingness of that Court to subject itself to the same ethical requirements that 850 other Federal judges adhere to."
"I am extremely worried about what's happening on the Supreme Court and what's happening with the failure of the Chief Justice to do what would relieve us of this public spectacle."
"So, should there be an obligation on the part of the seller, an airline, to make certain that that is in fact true?"
"Statement of Senator Welch"