Water Resources Development Act of 2024

Floor Speech

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Mr. GRAVES of Louisiana. Mr. Speaker, in this environment where Congress is sitting here fighting over everything, I take just a minute to reflect on this legislation.

Every 2 years under Chairman Graves' leadership, we have seen this bill come up. This is a critical bill. It is everything from resilience, flood protection, in my home State hurricane protection, restoring our coastal wetlands, ensuring economic competitiveness of the ports all around the United States.

This is critical legislation, and this is a rare opportunity where Republicans and Democrats are coming together to make the right decisions.

I thank Chairman Sam Graves and Ranking Member Larsen. I thank my good friend Congresswoman Napolitano. I wish her the best with all her children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren and keep going.

I thank my friend David Rouzer for all his work on this and of course the Ryans and all the staff who have put in countless hours.

From my home State of Louisiana, this is about our future. It is about resilience. It is about our ports and waterways. For example, in this legislation we have important legislation for the Morganza to the Gulf project ensuring the recognition of credit for the important work that the locals have done on that one.

Mr. Speaker, I thank all the folks involved, and I urge adoption of the legislation.

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