It was passed much earlier than that, August 2011, when the bill was passed.
Why is that? Senator Sessions asked about why we are being hit so hard, and the answer to that is, first, that we are a ...
I wish we had more money. We are in a deep, systemic problem, and we are going to have to deal with entitlements.
I think they have, and I am just raising some of the good news out there. It is not all bad.
I think our target really has to be to try to get rid of the sequester in a fair and balanced way.
The people instituted a Federal system that has three coordinate branches of Government.
Well, your staff may be, Judge, but we in Congress set the number of judges, so----
Congress voted--and the American people seemed quite comfortable with the idea--that we can reduce spending for a little...
Everything we do is constitutionally and statutorily mandated.
Would you agree that it is not permissible under the law to take the water first and then get a legal authority later?
We don't want to take everything, but there is a unique way of life being driven to extinction in Apalachicola.
Alabama urges this Committee to strengthen the language of the Water Supply Act so that Congress' proper role in control...
You don't get as much augmentation if the water has been drawn out to be consumed as you could get if it were not drawn.
I am asking a little more than that. I am saying will you ensure that you follow the recommendations of Chairman Boxer a...
I agree. I don't think it would be necessary to go to zero but I do think there are alternatives as that study showed.
Does the Corps agree with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's assessment that projected increases in Georgia's consumpt...
You have to know that maybe other Senators do not feel the problems of Alabama, Georgia and Florida as the Senators from...
It is hard to have negotiations if we are looking the other way on the withdrawal rates from those two lakes.