I think if--particularly if it is an independent audit, a reputable auditor, that should be sufficient to show that this is a substantial benefit to the taxpayers.

Are you talking about changes to the current contract, or to future contracts?

I would like to see the Corps prioritize these projects.

For the record, on the Crist amendment No. 12, rollcall No. 662 I intended to vote ``nay.'' I mistakenly voted ``yea.'' Amendment No. 14 Offered by Mr. Panetta The Acting CHAIR. The unfinished business is the demand for a recorded vote on…

And that is the point that I think concerns me about the whole debate around climate change is we get so wrapped up in CO2 that we miss the other things that are actually happening that we are going to have to deal with.

One example of failure to mitigate, and I do not want to be disparaging toward the Corps of Engineering, but they studied building a diversion canal from the Comite River over to the Lilly Bayou in Louisiana for 30 years and never put a…

I take exception to part of it, in that at the end of your point here of hardened landscape, that some of the big problems that we are facing with flooding is development, the hardening of the landscape, land use, the failure to use…

I think obviously the climate is changing.

If you do not properly define what is causing the change though, it is a fairly simple engineering principle if you get the definition wrong, the solution probably is not going to work.

Secretary Bunch, I know these issues predate your appointment. That said, we look forward to working to improve transparency and communication.

We owe the taxpayer full transparency on how their taxpayer dollars are being spent and why.

We owe the taxpayer full transparency regarding how their dollars are being spent, and why.

I thank the gentleman from Louisiana (Mr. Graves), the ranking member, and the gentleman from North Carolina (Mr. Meadows) for their work on the issue, and Chairman DeFazio for his support. The General Services Administration is required…

Calling this a constitutional impeachment process is a farce and a gross misrepresentation of what is taking place. The entire process has flown in the face of precedent, procedure, and decency, with no regard whatsoever for the good of…

I don't know about my colleague from North Carolina, but I can't understand why 3 years after a disaster we're still sitting on over $200 million when there are people in desperate need for it.

This is something that really bothers me, is that we fund these projects, the money doesn't get spent, another storm hits, we appropriate more money, and we don't know yet what's been done to mitigate and provide relief from the previous…

In Alabama, the debris removal cost was being handled through the Corps of Engineers. They were contracting it out to look like a single-bid contractor.

But when you're talking about a small county and $15 million, it's not only a massive savings for the Federal Government...

There is always going to be frustration with regulations... This really has been for 2-1/2 years been a mess.

It is insulting to infer that anyone wants to have filthy water, that anyone wants to destroy water for recreational use, much less drinking.

So you think you could use maps like the National Hydrography Dataset and the National Wetlands Inventory, those type maps, for regulatory purposes, or particularly for jurisdictional determinations?

I believe the last administration was pursuing policy objectives before looking at the law.

It can't be a political objective. If it is just a political objective and you don't apply the right science, the right engineering, the right technology, you don't get the result that you really want to have.

Congress was--at the same time we passed the last gas tax, we started passing these corporate auto fuel economy standards.

I thank the gentleman for yielding, particularly in regard to the fact that I am speaking in opposition. Mr. Speaker, I rise in opposition. This bill would authorize the appropriation of $100 million, annually, for the Diesel Emissions…