Tom Latham: “I want to thank Chairman Hobson for the great work that he has done and the ranking member, Mr. Visclosky, just a great…”

“I want to thank Chairman Hobson for the great work that he has done and the ranking member, Mr. Visclosky, just a great friend. You two guys fighting over who is going to give me a minute shows me how bipartisan we are here and all the great fellow committee members. This is really a subcommittee that works and works in a lot of different ways. {time} 1530 We work well together on a very bipartisan basis, but also doing the oversight work, really working through some very difficult issues. We would not be able to do that without the extraordinarily talented professional staff that we have on both sides, and I want to thank them. This is a very important bill for Iowa, for the country. We have got an energy facility, the Ames Laboratory in Ames, Iowa, and obviously, the Army Corps of Engineers, and the transportation issues we have on the Mississippi. There are a lot of different issues, the riverfront improvements in Fort Dodge, other environmental conservation projects around. But this is a very, very good bill, accomplished by people working together, and I just want to once again express my appreciation to the chairman and ranking member and the great staff.”