I'm going to write a letter to the President, and ask you all to sign it, and ask him to adjust his budget.
I say we cannot afford not to make them.
This budget that we have in front of us... simply does not have enough money to maintain or invest or build the structures that we have to t...
If there was ever an example of what's going to happen, when the levees broke in New Orleans... is there any other case study that needs to ...
We also have to be sensitive to the taxpayers that are picking up this tab.
If we don't really understand this mitigation, sort of one for one, like if you take an acre of wetlands, you have to replace it, I'm all fo...
I'm going to be on a tear this year to focus on our water transport because it's crucial.
There's no way around it. And until we can figure out a way to put more private and public money on the table, we're not going to get there.
And I agree with the Senator that we have to think big, but we're going to need a bigger budget to do that.
This budget is wholly insufficient, and it's not your fault, Madam Chair. It's our fault as the general Appropriations Committee.
I can honestly say, of all the committees I serve on, there is no budget that is in more crisis than this one.
It's going to bankrupt us. We have a problem as it is under the one-for-one.
What that means is our economy is weaker every day that a ship has to be light-loaded or stand offshore because the channel isn't deep enoug...
We could have saved the size of the State of Rhode Island, which we have already lost.
We need to be very aggressive in gathering the maritime dollars that are being paid for our ports and for our dredging.
While reading your testimony, I was most interested in what steps you take to increase the percentage of leased onshore lands which are curr...
We have lost about a dozen deepwater rigs, billion-dollar-plus assets that have left the Gulf of Mexico because they can't get permits becau...
I would suggest instead of going to Saudi Arabia and asking them to increase production, go to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue and ask the Presiden...
