Derrick Van Orden: “I stand in strong support of H.R. 8812 for the very specific reasons I represent Wisconsin's Third Congressional…”

“I stand in strong support of H.R. 8812 for the very specific reasons I represent Wisconsin's Third Congressional District. We have the largest contiguous section in the Mississippi River of any congressional district in this country. We do not have a north- south highway, we have the Mississippi River. This bill authorizes a new upper Mississippi River flood risk and resiliency study which is going to help the Corps work for a non- Federal interest by taking a systemwide approach to flood risk assessment. We have got a project to check out the flood risk management in the city of La Crosse, Wisconsin; a project for flood risk management for the Trempealeau River in Arcadia, Wisconsin, home of Ashley Furniture; and a project for the ecosystem restoration for the River Falls Kinni Corridor Project, in River Falls, Wisconsin. Again, I support this bill very strongly, and I encourage my colleagues to do the same.”