How are we possibly going to not curtail commerce when you are budgeting well less than half what we have spent in those previous years?
My point is that they fronted this money on the clear promise of reimbursement.
It is clear to me that we are never going to get a specific project recommendation out of it.
I don't want to take up more time here, but could you give me a written schedule, where any item that is temporary will be made permanent?
Let me applaud your saying that future reprogramming is not ruled out.
I fully support the role of these agencies in gathering sensitive and necessary information to safeguard the interest of the United States.
Morganza to the Gulf. That is an absolutely vital project that has been lingering and delayed for decades now.
I am very, very glad that we are going to meet that deadline in some sense, and I thank you again for the Corps' work.
OK. Well, that was announced. So if this is the announcement of a reversal of that, I applaud it.
Are you saying the permanent will be complete by the end of this calendar year? Because I don't think that is the case.
I am very concerned about some real gaps in that work and some real continuing needs in that work post-Katrina.