I recognize that the Corps has consistently been woefully underfunded, which presents great challenges in addressing the needs of Louisiana and the Nation.

I'm also troubled with the proposals to cap inflationary cost and reduce the average award of competing research project grants below the fiscal year 2012 level.

I do not agree with the funding level proposed by the administration for the NIH.

I believe that the NIH funding should be a priority and that its benefits extend well beyond its research discoveries.

At a time when NIH budgets are flat, and when the most heavily funded States will continue to be funded as they always have, why would the administration propose reducing the one pot of money that is specifically designed for States that…

However, for the fiscal year 2013 budget year, the President proposes a $48 million decrease.

People have heard that before and then they see their prices go up even higher.

We are losing jobs because of your policies.

I hope you all would review those policies again.

That is one of the few areas that has been up.

50 percent of the businesses in the oil and gas industry have laid off workers as a result of your policies.

That is not an All of the Above strategy.

This Subcommittee has heard loud and clear from many parts of the country that commercial and recreational fishing are being restricted due to inadequate or old data.

We feel like that is a direct violation of the Constitution, and overreach of power.

this lack of basic access is disturbing.

There seems to be a cutting off of that kind of opportunity, and the only way you get it is to... put your house at risk.

As we work through the budgeting process, I will continue to work with my colleagues and the Administration on efforts to curb our Federal debt and deficit while ensuring that we invest in key priorities for the First State and for the…

I am very cynical about what the Federal Government, apart from the Constitution and apart from law--every time the Federal Government gets involved with new laws and regulations, we just simply see more problems for the American people…