"So the Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund just maintains current levels."
"I will be interested next year during this hearing to find out how that worked out and what the impact was of closing that."
"Is there a plan on which ones we are going to dredge to take the deeper ships?"
"Just out of curiosity, what would it take to put together a master plan, transportation plan, in this country where we connected our harbor system, our inland waterway system, our railroads, our highw..."
"I get concerned when we are taking money out of the Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund and using it for other purposes."
"I hope that industry understands that we are serious that we need a solution."
"I just never thought about it that the Army Corps was the number one provider of recreation within the Federal Government."
"We have to live within our means."
"What matters is where we are today, and where we are going to be in the future. And what the American people are saying is, get your fiscal house in order."
"It is nobody's desire to shut down the government; what we want to do is reduce spending."
"You also have to look at the entitlement programs which this budget totally left out, in terms of reform of the entitlement programs."