We must build a better model. We must move in a new direction.
We have got to change our direction.
I want to say that discussing the status of hurricane protection and critical coastal restoration underway in South Louisiana is of extreme ...
I am not going to take my eye off of this. And I stated that we are making some progress. But we have a long, long, long way to go.
I am not sure that standard is necessarily accurate or something that we would agree with that you have outlined.
I believe that we have already authorized you to choose Option 2. I believe that is very clear.
It is not just puzzling, but it is aggravating, frustrating and frightening, actually, General, to the people that we represent.
What I learned in The Netherlands is that people can live, safely and securely, below sea level and near the water.
If Hurricane Katrina taught us anything, we must coordinate and manage our outer hurricane protection with the interior drainage and flood c...
The coast is in a state of crisis, losing 25 to 35 square miles of wetlands per year.
Thank you, Madam Chair.
It is essential that we do the right thing at this stage. Frankly, I am not into wasting hundreds of millions of dollars.
So, just to underscore this, where the canal walls breached have been replaced with a whole new design. Correct?
Just to summarize, my personal goal coming out of this hearing, which I think is shared by Senator Landrieu and Chair Boxer, is to first urg...
In my opening statement, I expressed a frustration, also, with some of the ways the Corps is moving forward...
So, given that, is not the general concept of Pump to the River to move a significant volume of water in a whole other direction and avoid t...
But everywhere where they did not breach, which is 99 percent of the length of the walls, we have the same design and the same walls as we h...
Thank you for all your leadership.
