I appreciate your willingness to work with us, and that is really all I am asking, is a commitment that you will keep working with these individuals to address the concerns.

As a Great Lakes member, I would ask you to address serious and widely held concerns about Great Lakes' dredging needs.

If non-Federal partners are going to pay for it, do you do the technical expertise and the design, do they then own it?

I think the problem that Mr. Fortenberry talks about is because of economists, and the reason we have economists is to make astrology look respectable.

Ever since we started the adjudication process, the first day I got into politics, the first issue was adjudication.

the backlog maintenance is a real problem.

We certainly want to encourage local communities and private partnerships to be involved in this.

I appreciate it, and thank you for your work and we look forward to working with you on this year's budget.

I think part of that process is probably going to continue, but if we could say, 'here are the priorities that this Nation wants to finish' and then fund those...

I appreciate your willingness to work with the water users in the State of Idaho in trying to address this.

It seems like the Army Corps of Engineers and the administration's budget always gets marked down, knowing that Congress is going to plus it back up to where we think it is adequate.

As you can tell we have 4 members from California on this Committee, and consequently when California has a drought, we have a hearing.

I think, one, we need a strategy, and we are working on a capital investment strategy.

We will never address the backlog because it would have gone over the 20 years more than we are paying it down probably.

The States and Fish and Wildlife Service do some watercraft inspections.

I appreciate you being here today, and look forward to working with you on your budget, and making sure we can move this Agency forward.

I would like to thank the Commission for the work that you have done thus far to develop the issues and issue a supplemental environmental impact statement for Yucca Mountain because the Department of Energy seems to refuse to do so.

In addition to $10 billion we have already spent on Yucca, the Department of Energy estimates that we have $27 billion of liabilities deriving from our failure to meet our legal obligation to dispose of this waste.

I appreciate that. The reason we gave it to the NRC is because we used to do it within the Department of Energy and the Department of Energy did not take it very seriously, and so we gave it to the NRC which I think you have done a good…

I would like to thank all the subcommittees again for their hard work on the fiscal year 2016 omnibus bill.

they underfunded, the Army Corps of Engineers by over a billion dollars, which we are going to have to find somewhere.

I would like to yield to Congresswoman Lowey for a final question.

the budget submission by the administration calls for about a $650 million increase over last year.

The grid is privately owned by private utility companies. What is our role in helping modernize the grid?

It would be nice to actually get things done on time.