I think it is going to be extremely difficult even with the array of other programs.
But to have programs that people have hope for and not fund them I think is the cruelest of all.
I think, unfortunately, we have developed a habit and a pattern of underbudgeting for emergencies that we absolutely kno...
So it is a $3 billion backlog?
I am going to ask you if $100 million is enough, and how many people you have had to tell no to when you ran out of that...
Can you please give me an update--not now, but in writing, please--about this project?
And I think the Senator from Mississippi is absolutely correct.
Somebody needs to respond to this situation.
I think that is what Senator Cochran, Senator Blunt, I, and others are saying, that after this historic flood, we need t...
Thank you, Senator Lautenberg, for those excellent remarks and questions.
It would seem to me that setting aside some emergency money for the Corps would be a wise way to operate.
I want the record to show that the Federal Government responded significantly after that flood of 1927.
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...
$1.7 billion.
Do you have any estimates of what it costs to put projects like that on hold?
Okay, you understand that in the continuing resolution that we are operating on, there is only $2.6 billion for disaster...
When do you think those estimates will come in?
If we had a major earthquake?
