Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. And welcome, Mr. Administrator. Thank you for what you do for a lot of people who have been experiencing real disasters out there.

It seems to me that pre-disaster mitigation is cheaper than paying the damages afterwards.

Hopefully, it will get done.

I was stunned, I guess, in the President's State of the Union that he did not once mention anything about agriculture.

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My colleague from Iowa, Congressman Steve King, has also introduced legislation that will require the Corps to take into consideration the new data points established by this year's flood.

I have joined several of my colleagues here, the Missouri River Basin Members of Congress, in supporting legislative efforts to compel a reassessment of upstream management.

I am going to ask that the Corps be responsible to Congress, once again calling that flood control be the primary purpose of the Corps.

This has got to change.

If we don't tell them, they will slide back to being run by the environmental interests, as opposed to the first priority, which I have heard stated multiple times here: Protect us from the flooding from serious downstream.

I have introduced legislation that would make flood control the priority of the Corps in managing the river.

Congress and the Corps of Engineers must make the repair a priority to avoid a similar situation occurring next year, or we could be here again.