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On the recordApril 22, 2010
I am disappointed. I am disappointed. I am disappointed my distinguished colleague is continuing to simply blindly, in my opinion, be a fierce defender of a bureaucracy which is truly broken. Not a pawn in anything, a member of the leadership, one of the top nine officers of the leadership of this bureaucracy. For my part, I will continue to fight to change, to fundamentally change that bureaucracy and, for starters, to have them follow the law, to have them follow their mandates, their authorizations in the WRDA bill and the other legislation I have outlined. I have outlined the authorization clearly to the corps. I will outline it again. I have outlined these significant studies that are overdue, have never been produced, not because of the fault of anyone else, not because of the State of Louisiana. I will meet with them next week. I will continue to work on that. I invite the Senator to work on that sort of fundamental change, not just fiercely defending this, in my opinion, truly broken bureaucracy.
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David Vitter
Republican · Louisiana
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govinfo.gov
Apr 22, 2010

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The speaker expresses disappointment in a colleague's defense of a broken bureaucracy and calls for fundamental change.

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