John Mica: “The most important question I think that was asked is, when we are going to open this thing.”

This isn't very glamorous. But just look at the progress we've made.

Again, if you don't have communication, I mean, when they couldn't communicate--and we held funds up a couple of times. I think I participated in that to get your attention.

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…

We tried to get them to comply, but they never did fully comply.