Where I'm going with this and I'll ask Secretary Smith the same question now.

What specifically are you doing at FERC and Secretary Smith, what specifically are you doing at Department of Energy that will help us get more of this gas captured and delivered to a market where it can be sold.

as the chairman and ranking member of the Transportation-HUD appropriations subcommittee are aware, I, along with Senators Hoeven, Leahy, Sanders, Blunt, Menendez, Lautenberg, Gillibrand, Baucus and Scott Brown have filed an amendment…

I thank the chairman and the ranking member for their support. We look forward to working with them to ensure our communities have the resources necessary to recover from these devastating disasters. ____________________

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I believe that requires us to review the operations of the master manual.

I think it is important to my constituents and certainly to me that we fully review the events of this last year.

The flooding was epic, there is no doubt about that.

Flooding of this magnitude had not been seen since the Garrison Dam became operational.

This is our fourth largest town. In 48 hours, the level of the flood was increased, the projection, 10 feet.

Just sticking with what has been done is not good enough.

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Rebuilding this city will take years.