John Mica: “The Federal Government didn't hear it.”

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

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…

This is not an acceptable solution.

They're trying to exclude, instead of include.