| Water Resources Development Act Of 2013—Continued |
May 9, 2013 |
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Kirsten Gillibrand, D-NY
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"Madam President, I rise to urge my colleagues to support a bipartisan amendment I worked on with Senator Wicker to make our communities more resilient in an era of extreme weather that we live in. No corner of America is being spared: blazing wildfires in the West, massive tornadoes in the South, crippling droughts in the Midwest, routine hurricanes battering the gulf coast and the northeast coast."
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| Celebrating National Travel And Tourism Week |
May 9, 2013 |
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Sam Farr, D-CA
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"From California’s Central Coast to Alabama’s Gulf Coast and every single Congressional district in between, travel and tourism plays an important economic role in all of our local communities. This week is National Travel and Tourism Week, a celebration of the $2 trillion economic engine that helps drive our nation’s economy. As the co-chairs of the bipartisan Congressional Travel and Tourism caucus, we would like to take this moment to raise awareness for America’s number one export and to explain how the “Travel Effect” benefits everyone."
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| The Benefits Of Travel And Tourism Celebrating National Travel And Tourism Week |
May 9, 2013 |
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Jo Bonner, R-AL
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"Mr. Speaker, from California’s Central Coast to Alabama’s Gulf Coast and every single Congressional district in between, travel and tourism plays an important economic role in all of our local communities. This week is National Travel and Tourism Week, a celebration of the $2 trillion economic engine that helps drive our nation’s economy. As the co-chairs of the bipartisan Congressional Travel and Tourism caucus, we would like to take this moment to raise awareness for America’s number one export and to explain how the “Travel Effect” benefits everyone."
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| Water Resources Development Act Of 2013 |
May 9, 2013 |
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Mary Landrieu, D-LA
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"We want to work with the chairman and the ranking member to pass a WRDA bill. There is no State that benefits more from the WRDA bill than Louisiana, and I am extremely grateful for her leadership not just on this bill but on the RESTORE Act, which she helped shepherd through, which has helped the gulf coast in immeasurable ways, and her support of the FAIR Act on revenue-sharing, which will help the gulf coast get the revenues we need—just as interior States have—to build our own levees and not have to be such a drain on the Federal Treasury."
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| Obama’S Visit To Texas Should Focus On Energy |
May 8, 2013 |
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Randy Weber, R-TX
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"Now, the President’s tour only has one stop in Texas, south of Austin, which is unfortunate. I would like to invite the President to come to my energy-rich district along the Texas gulf coast and see what job creation really looks like. If the President wants to create jobs, there is a project—the Keystone pipeline to be exact—that has been waiting 1,692 days to do just that."
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