These projects and activities are authorized and directed under the biennial Water Resources Development Act, we call it WRDA, which is legislation developed by this Committee.

I am also pleased to vote in favor of reporting the nomination of Jane Nishida to be Assistant Administrator for International and Tribal Affairs at the Environmental Protection Agency.

As you agreed during our conversation, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers can and should improve its operations and more efficiently deliver important water resources projects, both in West Virginia and across our country.

I am pleased to support the nomination of Alejandra Castillo to be Assistant Secretary for EDA at the Department of Commerce, an important position for my State.

We have some of the lowest broadband deployment in the country, unfortunately.

We just need to make sure we shorten the time to get to those last places.

they raise numerous grievances, many of which I have talked about. They talk about the voting machines they have right now, which they have spent a lot of money on, that would all be taken offline. You would have to fully replace all of…

I thank my colleague from Missouri, Senator Blunt, for his leadership on this issue. We had the hearing and the markup in the Rules Committee. I think that we could tell from the debate that the amount of holes and misinformation that is…

I rise today to oppose the nomination of Radhika Fox to be Assistant Administrator for Water at the EPA. I certainly appreciate her willingness to serve, and I have found her to be quite personable and friendly. So this is not a personal…

I was disheartened to see the Biden Administration strike two investment priorities from the application consideration process: Critical Infrastructure and Opportunity Zones.

I know I may not agree with everything the Administration does, but I would like to at least be able to understand why, how decisions are made, and to be ensured that my constituents have meaningful input before decisions are made that…

They`ve been able to do that from the beginning of this. I think eventually that`s where they`re going to end up.

When other ideas come up that are presented to be, you know, bigger and better. That had an effect, I think, on our negotiations.

I am very concerned at the unintended consequence this action and its subsequent extension will have on homeowners in my state.

The last offer that I got from the President had four tax increases in it. If we were in it, to win it for the American people, we`d miss a real opportunity here for at least 20 Republicans to join with the other Democrats to pass the most…

I think that is good advice, to be on the front end to have the data ready so that we can meet the challenge.

I will say, in our Water and Wastewater Bill that we passed unanimously out of Committee and 89 to 2 on the floor, we did have a work force component of that.

I can't decide if I'm frustrated or grateful...you have overseen the transfer and reprogramming of almost $3 billion.

we are going to be coming back for more money after this.

It's the preventative model. It's approaching folks early.

we are very, very concerned about this.

Addressing the challenges of PFAS contamination has been one of my highest environmental policy priorities, as many of you know, and I have long led bipartisan efforts to address this issue.

I wanted to ask on the--the EPA's budget justification would devote millions--hundreds of millions of dollars to environmental justice activities.

Even if you are down 1,000 people at the Agency, you can afford to have that occur?

I want this drinking water level, as I have tried to put in legislation out much sooner than what we expect it to be, and I am going to keep pushing on that, because I think that is critical.