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I am not an enemy of renewable energy. Heck, the city of Boise in my district operates the largest direct use geothermal system in the country, but coal and nuclear plants are being shut down across the country.
This country needs a strong Department of Energy.
Your department's credibility has been sorely damaged by proposing cost plans which are rapidly exceeded.
It is imperative that we find a swift and meaningful fix to the serious current inadequacies of the Highway Trust Fund.
After the expiration of SAFETEA-LU, it took 3 years and 10 short-term extensions to get another authorization passed.
How are we going to fund these roads and bridges? We have a $700 billion backlog in water and sewer projects in this country.
The infrastructure needs in this country are the biggest problems that we face.
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.
Increasing storage is going to be, I think, vital in trying to address some of these long-term droughts in the West.
I do not see us, frankly, building an awful lot of new dams in the West for increased storage.
That is just something that we need to know as a Committee, as we are planning our budgets.
Well, I would advise you to do something like that, because it would be helpful to this Committee--because then we know--we are also looking at five years on, if we start this project--because a lot of the projects that you guys do are not…
I appreciate you all being here. I thank you for the work that you do.
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.
I will guarantee--well, I won't guarantee anything, but I will strongly suggest there won't be an appropriation bill that passes that doesn't have a restriction on funding of this rule in it for both the Army Corps of Engineers and the EPA.
902 is the force of law with Congress, saying that we waive the law about the dollar. Is that not correct?
There is going to be some big, big kickbacks on this; I got a feeling.
Trying to define connectivity is a lot like trying to define navigable. Basically everything is connected.