Senator Durbin and I and others have sent a letter to the administration asking that there be one person put in charge o...
there's a great sense of urgency about not wasting any time at all about this.
I'm always concerned when I'm hearing--I understand the need for standards and for committees and so on, but we need to ...
I'd much rather be focusing on ways to redirect commercial activity, and funding that, which is much cheaper than what i...
we have to tighten up the focus on what the Army Corps is being asked to do
We have to act as quickly as humanly possible to be able to address this.
It's clear that the monitoring is, in fact, doing what we needed, even though we don't like the results of having found ...
I would strongly urge you to make sure that Michigan is incorporated into that.
How critical do you think it is that we complete construction on the third barrier and the flood controls along the Des ...
we have to find a permanent solution as quickly as possible.
I think the only thing that I would continue to strongly urge you to do is to continue to look at the closure of the loc...
We're going to move as quickly as we possibly can. I feel a great sense of urgency about this.
I also want to put into the record a statement from Senator Durbin, who is cosponsoring the Permanent Prevention of Asia...
I mean, we can't be talking about something that has an interim report in 2012 and a final report in 2014. I mean, that'...
So, we look forward to working with you as we move--the Army Corps of Engineers--as quickly as possible to give us the a...
It is a very good airplane. When do we have enough of them?
It really was given--it was under the umbrella of a philosophy or a belief that oil companies should police themselves.
the spill in the Gulf is another sign, in my mind, that we have to require more upfront preparation, upfront planning, r...