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The overwhelming message that I have heard from these important stakeholders is that the Federal process required for building roads is overly burdensome, and it needs to be more flexible.

Do you think maybe this committee and this Senate needs to look at how we address the categorical exclusions on projects?

We simply must have more transparency and accountability when it comes to the underlying scientific justifications for these rules.

We must work together to pursue a path forward that continues both these environmental and economic achievements.

Is there a war on coal? You know, a lot of people in Nebraska think there is because we have those coal-fired plants.

A clean and healthy environment is important to us all.

I am very concerned about the water rules that are coming out from EPA.

I have some concerns maybe that we are seeing our coal-fired electric plants in Nebraska.

Budget hearings are a fundamental responsibility of this committee.

Continuous piecemeal changes will only magnify uncertainty and doubt among our servicemembers about whether promised benefits will be there in the future.

Should there be more?

So the broad parameters are set, but there is flexibility within those parameters.

Explain your internal processes for re-evaluating your ongoing modeling, because I think, as you put it, your general guidance is given by the master manual, but obviously, you have certain flexibilities, or I assume you would, to make…

Thank you for the effort on the Western Clear Creek Water Flood Control Project. You became intimately familiar with that, and helped provide the robust funding.

Are we putting a Band-Aid over something that is bleeding, and then next year we will have another consideration as to whether or not we are going to be a part of this at all?

I think that way we ensure that the proper specialization is supported, and we are clearly always looking for areas in which we can consolidate or make things more effective and efficient.

I would like to know what the government is doing everywhere, not just right here, in this regard to ensure that we are coordinating properly.

I guess the point, then, is affirmed that here we are lowering our commitment because we are basically suggesting that the organization, this organizational structure and the trajectory towards some outcome here appears less and less…