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Peter DeFazio
@peterdefazio· Democratic · OR· Mar 25, 2014

Your actions are not going to change. You will continue to go for advice, voluntary compliance, and then negligence or knowing non-compliance will be the standard for prosecution.

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Eleanor Holmes Norton
@eleanorholmesnorton· Democratic · DC· Mar 25, 2014

If the point is to find out the truth, it seems to me at least we could have gotten through a lot of that here.

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Eleanor Holmes Norton
@eleanorholmesnorton· Democratic · DC· Mar 25, 2014

It is clear that the IG found that they had used inappropriate lists for these so-called BOLO lists.

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Eleanor Holmes Norton
@eleanorholmesnorton· Democratic · DC· Mar 25, 2014

So they have gone further. The IRS has gone further than the IG asked to go.

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Mike Simpson
@mikesimpson· Republican · ID· Mar 25, 2014

We don't like the fact that there is a 17 percent cut in the budget, take care of Asian Carp, nav waters and Savannah Harbor, and you are set to go.

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Mike Simpson
@mikesimpson· Republican · ID· Mar 25, 2014

I do not see us, frankly, building an awful lot of new dams in the West for increased storage.

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Mike Simpson
@mikesimpson· Republican · ID· Mar 25, 2014

And we need to work with the water users there to make sure that they understand what is going on here between the two federal agencies.

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Mike Simpson
@mikesimpson· Republican · ID· Mar 25, 2014

How are we going to fund these roads and bridges? We have a $700 billion backlog in water and sewer projects in this country.

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Mike Simpson
@mikesimpson· Republican · ID· Mar 25, 2014

That is just something that we need to know as a Committee, as we are planning our budgets.

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Mike Simpson
@mikesimpson· Republican · ID· Mar 25, 2014

Increasing storage is going to be, I think, vital in trying to address some of these long-term droughts in the West.

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Mike Simpson
@mikesimpson· Republican · ID· Mar 25, 2014

The infrastructure needs in this country are the biggest problems that we face.

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Doug Collins
@dougcollins· Republican · GA· Mar 25, 2014

I think the problem here is this: You have walked into a position in which the trust level is zero.

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Doug Collins
@dougcollins· Republican · GA· Mar 25, 2014

this is what has drawn the parallel of looking at Government and not trusting it, and heightened it even more.

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Mike Simpson
@mikesimpson· Republican · ID· Mar 25, 2014

The issue of work plans brings up a second concern I have with the lack of information to support the fiscal year 2014 work plan that has been submitted to date.

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Mike Simpson
@mikesimpson· Republican · ID· Mar 25, 2014

I believe there is a growing disconnect between the Committee's direction and the Administration's implementation when it comes to the Corps of Engineers.

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