And as long as I am Chairman of this Committee, you are not going to lose it.

I found in my own State, when I work on major flood control projects, one of the problems is we have great people and then you look over your shoulder, they have the whole history and they are gone.

It does not make any sense, it seems to me, to choose an option that is like $1 billion instead of $2 billion, I am just throwing a number out, when you could spend $1 billion and have $40 billion worth of damages and spend $2 billion and…

There was a need to do that. Congress directed the Corps to complete a study of how to provide Category 5 hurricane protection that includes but structural elements and wetlands restoration.

I am so persuaded that this Pump to the River project makes sense that I have asked my colleagues to work with me.

I am just asking you, why did you pick Option 1 and, in the face of all the disagreement, it seems to me from the two Senators here and, I do not know about the congressional delegation, but it looks unanimous.

Thank you so much. Because I think it is important.

It seems to me that we could do this and it does not do damage to our other discussion on Options 1 or 2.

Yes. Absolutely. Put it in the record.

You have people who are hearing you, are listening to you and you also have within your community the intelligence and the drive to save what James Carville says is a very special culture.

I figure that anyone who has earned the admiration and respect of Senator Fritz Hollings, Senator Lindsey Graham and Senator Jim DeMint is the person of great ability.

These storms showed why we must invest in restoring Louisiana's natural hurricane protection system, the wetlands.

Senator Boxer asked me to mention that she shares the concern about the imprisonment of Laura Ling and Euna Lee.

I want----get back to us, on what you're finding. And be honest, like the NTSB is honest.

The FAA must become a proactive agency, and merely talking doesn't fulfill their primary mission to ensure the safety of the flying public.

I've had problems with the FAA and safety for so many years, I can't even tell you, and it had nothing to do with if it was a Republican President or a Democratic President.

We need to hear that that culture must change.

Well, it's an outrage. Four hundred--and, you know, my friend Mark, who suffered such a loss, and his family, you know, he needs to hear this--450 recommendations of the NTSB have been ignored by the FAA over the years.

We are troubled by reports suggesting the FAA would talk to carriers about duty time.

We cannot afford to act after it is discovered that inspectors are overly friendly with the airlines they oversee.

I just felt that the NTSB, which is one of my hero agencies in government all my life, one of the agencies that just tells the truth, and they don't--they just come right out and say it--that they have been ignored and ignored and ignored…

I want to thank again Senator Whitehouse for working with me to create this Subcommittee.

I'm proud to express my strong support for Representative Ellen Tauscher, President Obama's nominee to be Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security.

I want a system based on science, not based on politics, not based on having the polluter at the table.

I don't think in all my years, I have ever encountered an Administrator who hit the ground running the way you did.