It doesn't make common sense that we would want to be a great country with great ports and a great inland waterway system, that we would be collecting money from taxes on cargo and from users of inland waterway systems to reconstruct those…

So I have to go back to these users and say, I'm sorry, we told you that we would fix the Inland Waterways Trust Fund and keep the locks open if you would ante up and pay more, and now they are paying more and we're not spending it.

First, all of us are urging you to do things you are not doing. Let me thank you for something you are doing.

If we are going to raise that money from the commercial barge people, we ought to spend it.

Well, it is disappointing to me and hard to go back to the people whose taxes we raised, basically, and say we took your money but we are just going to put it on the shelf for a while.

Thank you, Senator Feinstein.

This budget proposes cutting the Corps' funding to the actual level of spending in 2007--we are literally moving backward, on an agency that is crucial to maintaining our country's infrastructure.

I question the level of priority this administration is placing on our Nation's critical infrastructure.

Governing is about setting priorities, and unfortunately, the president's budget request for these agencies shows a failure to do so.

It is a treat to work with somebody who is capable of making a decision, expressing herself well, and easy to work with.

I would like to see some estimate of what the backlog of projects is, what the estimated work plan is over the next several years.

An important example of the administration's failure to set priorities is in my home State of Tennessee: the lack of any funds in the president's budget request to restart replacement of Chickamauga Lock.

It is a problem that I don't expect you to solve today, but it is one I am going to work with you to solve.

I look forward to our getting our nuclear waste bill done that we have worked for 4 years now.

I have deep concerns with various aspects of the President's fiscal year 2016 Civil Works request.

I look forward to treating her with at least as much courtesy as she has always treated me.

That means there is $6 billion worth of pure waste, overpayments being made, on durable medical equipment.

If you could speak briefly to--President Bush was the first one who spoke out about the propaganda tool that Guantanamo Bay (GTMO) represented, the recruiting tool that it represented.