I want to particularly thank Mike for his very concrete, persuasive testimony.
I think it is a commonsense nonstarter to even have that discussion if half of the Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund is being diverted for unrel...
every time a vessel's draft is decreased by one foot on the lower Mississippi because of under-maintained waterways, this costs shippers abo...
the Administration only spends roughly half that amount for harbor maintenance.
I am very excited to be here. I am very excited to be Ranking Member, and I am very excited about our partnership on infrastructure issues.
How can we double exports when I can't load what we have today?
the funds are, frankly, going to make it look like we have a stockpile of $6 billion somewhere, which, as Senator Vitter points out, is illu...
Well, again, this is a big fiction, and I think the first important part of this conversation is to get beyond the fiction.
lower Mississippi River, biggest waterway in the Country, one of the biggest in the world, reduced in some cases to one-way traffic.
This is something you can tell, I hope, we are communicating that we care passionately about and it is thoroughly bipartisan.
I have to look for a catastrophe to put a supplemental on there to get funding.