John Mica: “I am an advocate of private screening under Federal supervision, which hopefully could make better decisions.”

I think it will save money and actually benefit projects that start with non-Federal dollars and can be a great advantage to some of those ports and other waterways that are at a disadvantage because of the distance of the project. So I…

What kind of message does it send when they actually get elevated?

I think we've made a lot of progress--unfortunately, in the wrong direction.

Two, we don't know the condition of the properties we have.