This is not one designed to hurt you.

We are trying to be able to work through helping the Corps by figuring out the inventory of what you have, where are the priorities.

Can I recommend to the committee that we have a closed door meeting with the Corps of Engineers and with OMB together?

Yes, it is critical.

I need to tell you that you need to lead with that.

I appreciate that, Mr. Chairman.

It is good to see you again.

The experience you bring here... is very valuable.

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We appreciate you being here and doing the hard work. You all have done a lot of work behind the scenes to be able to get to this point, to be able to do this, and we do appreciate it.

OK. Additional elements that need to be addressed in this memorandum of agreement that are unaddressed.

I get that. No, I am not going to hold you to it, as we are going through some of the possibilities for review.

They are dangerous people when they have nothing to do. Yes.

This may be an ongoing conversation with Small Business Administration and others that just want to be able to have people at the table.

Hopefully the last one, because that was cleaning up the mess from the first one, but that is a whole different issue.

This will have a court challenge and cost the taxpayers millions of dollars.