I look forward to working with you. We did so on Interior, and we will do so on this subcommittee as well.

No adage has ever been truer than 'whiskey is for drinking and water is for fighting'.

I understand that April 2010 was the halfway mark of the goal of securing all vulnerable nuclear materials in 4 years.

It is my understanding that the budget proposal does not provide for full authorized widths and depths to be maintained at any harbor handled by COE.

whiskey is for drinking and water is for fighting in the West

With regard to the stockpile, it is true that we have the oldest stockpile we have ever had.

I must say I am very disappointed in our part of the continuing resolution which takes another whack at COE.

If we are going to compete internationally, we have to have a modern infrastructure, and the ports have to be consistently dredged.

We do not believe money should be taken from this trust fund for other use.

Scientific research is critical to innovation, which is fundamental to job creating, economic growth, and global competitiveness.

So, there is a list of priorities?

I am not for new nuclear weapons. I will do everything I can to prevent the development of a new nuclear weapon.

So, the question is, what is NNSA doing to consolidate nuclear materials to a much smaller and easier to protect number of sites and buildings, especially in Russia?

I am glad Senator Graham just came back because what we just learned was that there are $7 billion in the port trust fund for dredging, but only $700 million-plus is being put forward by the administration for dredging.

I am trying to remember which one it is and I cannot remember.

How realistic is all of that?

I actually got out the contracts and read them, and it is interesting because they are contracts with all kinds of hedges in them.

How much mandatory funding accompanies the $51.5 million in discretionary funding you have proposed for fiscal year 2012?

You have proposed a new account for these Indian Water Rights Settlements.

However, as you know well, there is still a lot of consternation in the central valley when most other projects are receiving 100 percent.

Would you let me know, please, because, obviously, I am vitally concerned.

I have tried to be as liberal as possible.

We all recognize, I think, the difficult fiscal environment we are in.

Opening Statements of

We are equally grateful to the chairman and the other members of this subcommittee and staff, for their continuing efforts in funding critically needed operations and maintenance funding of all our Nation's ports both large and small…