OFFICIALS LEGISLATION INTEREST GROUPS PUBLIC STATEMENTS COMMITTEES VETOES

Diana E. Murphy United States Courthouse

Floor Speech

Date: Sept. 13, 2018
Location: Washington, DC
Issues: Infrastructure Natural Resources

BREAK IN TRANSCRIPT

Mr. SHUSTER. Mr. Speaker, I move to suspend the rules and pass the bill (S. 3021) to designate the United States courthouse located at 300 South Fourth Street in Minneapolis, Minnesota, as the ``Diana E. Murphy United States Courthouse'', as amended.

BREAK IN TRANSCRIPT

Mr. Speaker, I rise today in strong support of S. 3021, the America's Water Infrastructure Act of 2018.

This bill is good for our infrastructure, good for jobs, and good for America. It is a bipartisan, bicameral comprehensive bill that delivers on a promise to regularly address water resources and infrastructure issues across the Nation.

Title I of this act is the Water Resources Development Act of 2018, or WRDA. I want to remind my colleagues that we overwhelmingly passed WRDA in June by a vote of 408-2.

WRDA invests in the ports, locks, and dams, inland waterways, flood protection, and other infrastructure that makes America more competitive and protects our communities. It also builds upon reforms to the Army Corps of Engineers to help improve project delivery.

This bill is fiscally responsible and fully offset. It cuts red tape, and it maintains congressional authority and oversight of Federal investment.

I want to thank Ranking Member DeFazio for working together on the WRDA title. However, today's bill includes more than just WRDA, and I also want to thank the Energy and Commerce Committee, the Natural Resources Committee, and our Senate counterparts for helping put this package together.

I am proud to say today's legislation continues a 2-year cycle of regular order for Congress considering these essential WRDA bills. This has been one of my top priorities since I became chairman over 6 years ago.

We need to pass this bill, continue providing direction to the Corps, and ensure all of these infrastructure improvements move forward.

This is simply good public policy, and it is good for our Nation.

BREAK IN TRANSCRIPT

Mr. SHUSTER. Mr. Speaker, I just want to say the ranking member is 100 percent correct on his assessment of the harbor maintenance trust fund. I support it. He is absolutely right. I just want to make sure, when he is referring to BS, he is not referring to Bill Shuster.

BREAK IN TRANSCRIPT


Source
arrow_upward