John Mica: “If the Federal Government gets involved, the project takes three times as long and costs three times as much.”

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…

Sounds like you're doing pretty well on this.

The bipartisan cooperation has been very effective in moving this forward.

Fifteen years later, we see a system that has not complied with the laws that we have passed multiple times.