Thank you, Chairman Boxer, for all your leadership, for calling this hearing, and for your draft.
A lasting legacy of both of you on this Committee is to come together, to bridge partisan divides on important national priorities.
That is basically just a tax on commerce.
We are very committed to continuing that tradition, to coming together, to getting full input and to producing a good, solid, responsible, b...
We need to use those supposedly dedicated revenues for the purposes for which they are intended: dredging waterways, keeping commerce flowin...
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 have filed legislation to move the project around responsibility of many COE projects to the State and local government.
The answer is no, and the obvious question is why not.
I urge you to do that re-look. That is very similar to the re-look we met about and discussed regarding Morganza.
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 si...
We want a month peer review with some immediate usable conclusions.