"Are we going to continue this nonsense?"
"Mr. McKinley. And I thank you, Madam Chairman, and thank you for getting this panel together, because this is going to be an interesting discussion."
"I think we are sending mixed signals. We elected officials, public statements, public--I think we are sending confusing and mixed signals out to the public."
"If we want schools to be open, shouldn't we be open too?"
"We are losing as much as 30 percent of the water. Thirty percent of the water that we treated."
"There are over 1,100 designated Superfund sites around the country."
"We have got to stop this. And according to the American Water Works Association, we are going to need 1.7, almost 2 trillion dollars through 2050 to repair this infrastructure."
"Look, I get a kick out of, as a civil engineer--the only licensed civil engineer in Congress--I get a kick out of the fact that our committee and others keep referring to the ASCE report."
"Could we use the funds that we had from COVID for State and local government since it is used for healthcare on this?"
"But they are driven locally based on the ability to pay."
"But there is a difference between investing wisely and saddling our children with crushing debt."