"Are you talking about changes to the current contract, or to future contracts?"
"I would like to see the Corps prioritize these projects."
"I think obviously the climate is changing."
"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 landsca..."
"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 t..."
"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."
"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 Lo..."
"We owe the taxpayer full transparency regarding how their dollars are being spent, and why."
"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."
"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..."