Rick Larsen: “Thank you, Chair Nehls, for calling this hearing on pipeline safety and for your kind words about our colleague and…”

Mr. Chair, I rise today to oppose the dirty water act. This bill will make it more difficult to keep our water clean and will, ironically, add more uncertainty to the permitting process, just the opposite of what we need to have happen…

This is an FAA bill. It is an aviation manufacturing bill. This applies to everybody that it applies to.

Yes, the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts needs structural renovations. No, the administration cannot use that need to strong arm the board into putting the president’s name on the facade; the courts already ruled against…

I encourage all my colleagues to visit the Coast Guard, get out on the water, get up in the air with them, as I did in Pensacola, to truly see the value that they provide to our country.