05/17/2011
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"We cannot afford to let current projects go unfinished, yet we face a major obstacle of how to fund these initiatives."
"Just very quickly, I notice that you, in your budget, you include $50 million, a $40 million increase on comprehensive levee safety, the levee safety initiative, which is really a big deal in the sens..."
"I think all of us agree that the teapot museums, things like that, in the climate that we are in now, we have to be so frugal with the taxpayers' money."
"The LEED rating system discriminates against the use of most American wood products."