"We need to provide the kind of flexibility and new mandates for the Army Corps of Engineers and local flood control agencies to adjust to the realities of climate change and more flooding."
"Let's see, super floods, super hurricanes, atmospheric rivers, climate change. This is the reality of today and even more so in the future."
"we worked with this Committee and these members because OMSA understood that if changes to the Jones Act are necessary, Congress should enact them."
"I want to thank you and your colleagues at the GAO for its work--your work--over almost two decades now on this program."
"A lot of this is blowing in the wind to today. We will see what comes of all of it with the meeting that is taking place as well as the congressional point of view, which may differ from what the Whit..."
"This is an issue that has--that requires our attention. We are talking $1.4 trillion over the next 25 years or so--an extraordinary amount of money that is really going to be controlled by two compani..."
"The answer is no, we cannot wait unless we want a bunch of airplanes sitting, unable to fly."
"I thank you, Mr. Norcross. That is the fundamental point we have been raising throughout this entire hearing."
"I don't see a multiyear contract going forward until the fundamental questions that have been asked thus far and several that have not yet been put on the table are resolved."
"Thus far this program has not worked well. Made progress, no doubt about it. But we got some very, very serious problems that have to be resolved."
"You are driving profit, you are not driving quality, and you sure as heck are not driving safety."