John Mica: “I think that is what we got into, yes.”

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

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…

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.