Derek Kilmer

Ensuring the resiliency of this airport in turn guarantees the resiliency of this community.

It's critical that Congress steps up to ensure that airports have the resources they need to continue this important mission.

I am here today because I represent a region that is especially vulnerable to natural disasters.

I am introducing a bill called the Resilient Airports Act, alongside my colleague and your fellow committee member, Earl Blumenauer of Oregon.

I think it is important that Congress steps up to ensure that airports have the resources that they need to continue their mission.

I look forward to introducing this legislation in the coming weeks.

I appreciate your leadership and your consideration of these requests.

Ensuring the resiliency of this airport and others guarantees the resiliency of our communities.

I know how critical our airports are to our emergency preparedness and disaster response.

I am eager to help. And certainly, as the action plan rolls out, we would love to get a brief from you or NOAA.

I wish I had an answer. Like so many invasive species, once they have taken hold, it is really hard to eradicate them.

I went out this summer with a group hoping not to find European green crabs in the Puget Sound, and unfortunately, we were successful in finding them.

There are a number of Tribes in the Northwest that have Tribal Historic Preservation Offices... to protect and preserve.

We continue to work very closely with the Japanese-American community... to ensure that the grants are competitive.

It is, I think, a critical program that supports that memorial and many sites around the country.

I want to underscore the urgency of this and having the EPA with skin in the game. We can't get it done without you.

If there are things where our committee or where Congress needs to change authorizations or change the rules so that communities can actually take advantage of a whole-of-government approach, I think we were eager to do that.

The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights put out what was called the Broken Promises Report detailing all of the ways in which we fail tribal communities.

Their ancestral homelands are really in danger, and I would love to see us step up more than we are for these communities.

I guess to kick things off, I would love to just get your thoughts on how your Agency, how the Biden Administration can work with Congress, can work with this subcommittee to develop and to execute a more coordinated and comprehensive plan…

I really appreciated you highlighting the Tribal Climate Resilience Program in your testimony.

I represent an area that used to be very timber dependent. I saw a lot of my friends' parents lose their jobs.

The provision was intended to address some longstanding issues pertaining to the determination of construction project features.

I secured a provision entitled Section 8371 Puget Sound Nearshore Ecosystem Restoration Washington.

We are similarly rooting the county and that whole team on in terms of moving forward.