"obviously, I am vitally concerned."
"I actually got out the contracts and read them, and it is interesting because they are contracts with all kinds of hedges in them."
"Opening Statements of"
"We all recognize, I think, the difficult fiscal environment we are in."
"whiskey is for drinking and water is for fighting in the West"
"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."
"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 administr..."
"Without continued maintenance dredging of the Federal channel at roughly 3-year intervals, none of these scientific, educational, environmental research, and vital commercial fishing activities could ..."
"The President continues to place a priority on DOE in his fiscal year 2012 budget request, proposing $29.5 billion."
"I believe you have just $200 million in the budget for that and that you have sent letters to 50 renewable energy developers who had applied for loan guarantees saying their applications were on hold ..."
"You could make that 2-year goal."