Steve Southerland: “This Administration is funding luxuries while the necessities--good data, so you all can make a living--are being…”

I now yield 45 seconds to the gentleman from Georgia (Mr. Kingston), whose welfare rolls were reduced by over 85 percent in the 1996 work requirements.

This is about real people.

I have seen firsthand the devastating impact of reduced downstream flows on this community's ecosystem, environment, and economy.

In this country you are innocent until you are proven guilty.