just that one bridge is $65 million.

Thank you, Senator. Good to be with you, I appreciate you being here, and also very much appreciate the moment of silence for one of our soldiers.

it's good to see Fargo and West Fargo working together on a joint facility. That's great.

We've all--it's got to be a team effort, here.

We really are working to go forward with a three-part plan.

I think that's a really good thing. I think that's great. Because we're all going to have to work together on this issue.

We've got to work together on this one and as I listen to the testimony here today, I mean it, again, it convinces me we've got to work together on this challenge.

we lost the ability to have water go into Devils Lake, in order to preserve the ability to get water moved to eastern North Dakota

Senator Dorgan has been very helpful in the money side of getting this program.

potentially billions of dollars, in essence, then, to put water back in the river that has almost the same sulfate content as the water you took out.

I contacted Senator Conrad when I heard that he was going to have these hearings both up in Devils Lake and down here in Valley City.

It would have also improved the economic efficiency of the country.

I look forward to hearing from each of you on the steps that should be taken to address the flooding crisis in the Devils Lake Basin.

I argued strenuously for at least $200 billion on infrastructure.

Thank you for your time and cooperation, Senator Conrad and Committee Members.

We did very well by securing 2 dollars, roughly, for every dollar in tax money collected in our State.

I want to welcome everyone today to the hearing of the Senate Budget Committee.

What is the economic cost of that to our country?