When a problem is this big--it is one thing if I am fighting for my district, but I am fighting for keeping a major transportation thoroughfare open for the economy and for just ev...
If it ever makes the cut through--we are going to have a navigational problem and all traffic will be stopped from New O...
The locals would love to see the levee back. That is no problem. And I understand their frustration of watching the fami...
But here is the problem. We had the language. We sent it to the Senate. I don't know who, but someone said, OK, we don't...
We actually put in the WRDA bill language that we discussed with the St. Louis Corps on how it would actually allow them...
Program funds that are being requested by the St. Louis Corps to do repair on East St. Louis levee projects, the distric...
Let me tell you, it was no holiday.
Let me ask you this, then, because what I really want to know is...
Do we have some kind of mechanism in there that allows leeway for the implementation of this?
I know that.
I believe that safety is vitally important.