This is an incredible project and frankly do you consider this, the Red River Valley Flood Protection Project, really a national model and are you committed to completing it and getting it done on time and as planned?

The idea that somehow they would have to subsidize somebody who makes three times as much money just because their credit score was better than that person just makes zero sense to me.

I helped write the legislation. I am not guessing on this one.

And you understand the importance of the project and getting the EIS completed?

It is incredibly important work.

You recognize and agree that it is important work, correct?

The idea that somehow they would have to subsidize somebody who makes three times as much money just because their credit score was better than that person just makes zero sense to me.

This is an incredible project and frankly do you consider this, the Red River Valley Flood Protection Project, really a national model and are you committed to completing it and getting it done on time and as planned?

I like the idea of vouchers. I like the idea of dealing with the demand side.

This is legislation that Senator Coons and I introduced last session, reintroduced it, good bipartisan support from the Committee.

Dakota Access Pipeline, with which you're very familiar, moving more than half a million barrels a day of energy, by the way, sweetest crude from North Dakota that our Nation badly needs right now.

Dakota Access Pipeline, with which you're very familiar, moving more than half a million barrels a day of energy, by the way, sweetest crude from North Dakota that our Nation badly needs right now.

I helped write the legislation. I am not guessing on this one.

I think it is a really awful idea, that you would punish the high performers this way.

Dakota Access Pipeline, with which you're very familiar, moving more than half a million barrels a day of energy.

It is incredibly important work.

Even in a state like North Dakota, just the varying different communities even within one state are so varyingly different from one another.

And you understand the importance of the project and getting the EIS completed?