John Mica: “Construction and completion of I-49 will support the creation of up to 206,290 new jobs.”

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…

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

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

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