Our job is to push, push, push.

As Senator Portman mentioned, these efforts already have resulted in saving FAST-41 projects over $1 billion in costs through avoided permitting process delays.

Absolutely. I was going to get down to your project next. I am really impressed that so many people know how to pronounce Mid-Barataria too.

The system, as we have heard from our constituents constantly, takes too long. It is complicated, sometimes very bureaucratic.

Well, thank you, Senator Landrieu, and, Ms. Terrell, would you like to speak now or be available to answer questions, because Senator Landrieu, even though she is no longer a Senator, has learned how to use all of her time.

I want to express our sincere appreciation to Senator Portman for his support of our projects as well as his leadership in pursuing balanced permitting reform.

Let me just be specific. You talked about $6 million, roughly, in the budgets this year.

I did not mean to be ungrateful there, because I know there was lots of back-and-forth.

Yes, you did a lot.

I think it is so important that the Council be permitted to consult on non-covered projects.

By the way, more data and the ability to use the data, so it is not just having big data but to be able to put the analytics behind it so it makes sense, will help put the performance measures.

By the way, the 2-year goal is that it is a goal. As I said earlier, if agencies cannot meet that goal for some reason, they have to explain why, and how they are going to try to meet it.

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Have you read about the FAST Act? Oh, yes. We have read about it but we really do not, you know, have to, like, pay a lot of attention to it.

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