And I agree with the Senator that we have to think big, but we're going to need a bigger budget to do that.
We need to be very aggressive in gathering the maritime dollars that are being paid for our ports and for our dredging.
We could have saved the size of the State of Rhode Island, which we have already lost.
What that means is our economy is weaker every day that a ship has to be light-loaded or stand offshore because the chan...
It's going to bankrupt us. We have a problem as it is under the one-for-one.
We are losing 25 to 35 square miles of wetlands per year--about a football field an hour--which places millions of lives...
I'm going to write a letter to the President, and ask you all to sign it, and ask him to adjust his budget.
If Congress approves the President's request, the DHS budget will fall for the third straight year.
Thank you, and we will reconvene in a couple of weeks on another subject.
Because our job will not have been done well.
we included $77 million above the request for the Coast Guard.
I am not going to spend the next 5 years, 6 years, or 10 years, as long as I am here, nibbling around the margins.
Our subcommittee is interested in helping you build the Coast Guard we need for the country.
We have already made it clear that the need is there. The budget, as we have been budgeting, is not going to meet that n...
I am going to help you fix that, and I am going to put language in my bill to make sure that when you sell surplus prope...
Aren't they amazing?
The challenge for leaders in this town is we are consumed by people whose vision only goes from year-to-year.
I have gone on record saying that I think the Coast Guard needs closer to $2 billion per year to recapitalize, do proper...
