Is there any chance that the number that we are working on now will go down?
But after the fiscal year, no. We would have to go back into immediate needs funding to be able to continue providing in...
So the bottom line is, when we fail to provide the adequate money to the DRF, you sometimes have to stop projects that a...
If we had a major earthquake?
When do you think those estimates will come in?
$30 million?
Okay, you understand that in the continuing resolution that we are operating on, there is only $2.6 billion for disaster...
Do you have any estimates of what it costs to put projects like that on hold?
$1.7 billion.
I think it would be very helpful for this subcommittee, and I know this is difficult, but you have in your staff a lot o...
Are there any other questions before we close this panel out?
I want the record to show that the Federal Government responded significantly after that flood of 1927.
I just want, again for the record, to be very clear to start with the number that you just gave, Administrator, that it ...
Okay, but you just testified that you need at least $2 billion----
I commit to work with the Senator of Vermont to make this business loan program the very best that it can possibly be.
It would seem to me that setting aside some emergency money for the Corps would be a wise way to operate.
Thank you, Senator Lautenberg, for those excellent remarks and questions.
I think that is what Senator Cochran, Senator Blunt, I, and others are saying, that after this historic flood, we need t...