There was a need to do that. Congress directed the Corps to complete a study of how to provide Category 5 hurricane prot...
I found in my own State, when I work on major flood control projects, one of the problems is we have great people and th...
We have learned a great deal over the past few years about why the New Orleans Hurricane Protection System failed.
Nothing is going to be done unless we keep our eye on the ball.
I think between Senator Vitter and myself, and Senator Landrieu, we can cover the Committee and see what they think abou...
We need to make sure that credit default swaps and similar derivatives are classified as insurance, and are subject to r...
Why aren't we?
The litigation is a creature of this Congress. Perhaps we ought to reign it in.
Now there is word that all four major global temperature tracking outlets release data showing the temperatures have dro...
Is there not a great deal of commercial value to trees through thinning, if they are used for lumber production?
But if we salvage them for lumber, and do so in a timely fashion, is that not a money maker for the Federal Government?
We have, I think, established that this is a very serious problem.
The most cost-effective would get some money on the ground to Jackson County.
If we thin the forests, they are healthy; if we fail to thin them, they are ravaged.
Thank you, Madam Chairman; a lot has been said about the interaction of temperature and water on the beetle infestation.
I think if the motive is just to stop the process, that is not a good use of the law.
As Congresswoman Herseth Sandlin said, we have actually still got a viable industry there.
I hate to be stalled by someone who is using a law to, just for that purpose.
