The answer is no, and the obvious question is why not.

I have filed legislation to move the project around responsibility of many COE projects to the State and local government.

What do you tell the people of lower Jefferson who did not obstruct help for their neighbors to the north, and are now left out in the cold?

I drafted the language.

Lower Jefferson is exactly the sort of area I am talking about that was promised protection.

I will send you the post-Hurricane Katrina language because I think it gets clear, not just the authority, but mandates to COE to look at significant additional protection like that.

the price of gasoline at the pump is double what it was 4 years ago. The majority in this Senate has done nothing to address that problem, and this administration has done nothing to address that problem. In fact, we are moving in the…

It has been 5 years. That is way too long to get a solid, robust water resources bill.

In fact, Senator Vitter has been such a strong supporter of full utilization of the harbor maintenance trust fund.

My single biggest goal in the new WRDA goal is significant, important reform of the Corps of Engineers' bureaucracy and process.

We need to take it up and act as quickly as possible, including if it bleeds into next year as soon as possible in the new Congress.

I certainly strongly, strongly support the priority of passing a good, robust WRDA bill as soon as possible.

I am honored to join Mary here in strong support of this nomination and urge your positive consideration.

Usually, peer review means very independent peer review, clearly outside the academic institution or the agency that something is emanating from.

I want to commend Senator Lautenberg for his priority and focus for several years with regard to reform.

I think a big hurdle we face in this area generally is a dramatic erosion of broad-based confidence over several years in the science agencies like EPA uses.

TSCA is very important. We need to reform it and we need to get that right.

I know Senator Lautenberg is still open to negotiations.

I remain completely committed to getting back to that bipartisan process so that we can produce a good consensus bill.

How can the Fed adopt a rule that ignores specific statutory language?

It seems to me the rule the Fed is in the process of adopting ignores that specific metric.

It is underway 4 years later.

I come to the floor, as many of our colleagues have done, to talk about this very significant and, for me at least, stunning U.S. Supreme Court decision on ObamaCare. First of all, I use the word ``stunning,'' not particularly because of…

I expect this amendment to pass, but I know some Members expected a vote, and I certainly wanted to provide them that vote with a 60-vote threshold. I urge support of this bipartisan amendment. It does two things. First of all, it clears…

The answer is not more regulation. It is smarter, stronger regulation.