the bottom line is our nation's revenues and spending are vastly misaligned.
Are you saying the permanent will be complete by the end of this calendar year? Because I don't think that is the case.
OK. Well, that was announced. So if this is the announcement of a reversal of that, I applaud it.
I am very, very glad that we are going to meet that deadline in some sense, and I thank you again for the Corps' work.
How are we possibly going to not curtail commerce when you are budgeting well less than half what we have spent in those previous years?
My point is that they fronted this money on the clear promise of reimbursement.
It is clear to me that we are never going to get a specific project recommendation out of it.
I don't want to take up more time here, but could you give me a written schedule, where any item that is temporary will be made permanent?
Forty one million to these local entities is a lot of money. They are out. They have fronted that money.
I am very concerned about some real gaps in that work and some real continuing needs in that work post-Katrina.
Morganza to the Gulf. That is an absolutely vital project that has been lingering and delayed for decades now.
It's very important. Whether it's for homeland security or drug interdictions, or hurricanes, for that gulf coast region to have that kind o...
In some of the barracks where we're asking our soldiers, I would literally not want to see pets or animals kept in some of these facilities.
I'm glad to see we have won.
I think it's been very positive.
I've served on this subcommittee now for about 8 years, and it's been a high priority of several of us on this subcommittee.
Some of the data is as old as 10 years, and so are you putting that at a priority as well, going back to those that are maybe the most overd...
What I am trying to understand though is that if you have less fleet days, and yet you feel that you are going to actually catch up on the s...
