If we are going to raise that money from the commercial barge people, we ought to spend it.
First, all of us are urging you to do things you are not doing. Let me thank you for something you are doing.
So I have to go back to these users and say, I'm sorry, we told you that we would fix the Inland Waterways Trust Fund an...
It doesn't make common sense that we would want to be a great country with great ports and a great inland waterway syste...
10 million adults in the U.S. had a serious mental illness during 2013. That should not be lost on us.
the lock could close in a few years unless progress is made.
it is disappointing that the administration has failed to do its job.
I would like to see that. I would like to see some estimate of what the backlog of projects is, what the estimated work ...
The project is not just important to Chattanooga, but to all of eastern Tennessee because of the number of jobs affected...
I have said in statement I would like to double energy research.
Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
I think that the decision to make the percentage breakdown 85 percent of the general treasury for Olmstead was helpful, ...
it's disappointing the Obama administration has failed to do its job.
I want to say at the outset what a privilege it has been to work with the Senator from California over the last few year...
These are three extremely important steps to give our country the inland waterways that we need.
So step one is to get everything into dry storage within 6 years.
There should be a disciplined approach toward doing that.
If there were a private repository, not operated by the Department of Energy but licensed by the Nuclear Regulatory Comm...