Garret Graves actually said...

"we have an incredibly robust environment, coastal area, one of the most ecologically productive places."

"I think NOAA's schedule is absurd, I do."

"But why there are not drain outlets in that wall and why Federal standards would not call for certain increment of drainage flow or offsetting walls or something in some areas, I simply don't understa..."

"We are either giving other Nations billions and billions of dollars, and giving them millions of jobs, or we are going to do it here."