John Mica: “Good morning. I would like to call this hearing of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee to order.”

Today I am asking my colleagues for support of this noncontroversial amendment. This amendment would facilitate simply a land transfer from the Army Corps of Engineers to the Department of the Interior to hold in trust for the Muscogee…

This is a simple amendment. It does make an adjustment to the benefit-cost ratio for any navigation project carried out by the Army Corps of Engineers with non-Federal funds. This gives the Secretary, after the completion of any portion of…

But, one, we don't have an inventory of vacant Federal properties or underutilized Federal properties. That's a given.

FEMA should have learned from the mistakes of Katrina.