Garret Graves actually said...

"You can never explain, justify those types of schedules to any taxpayer and we shouldn't ever have to."

"I don't understand how the Corps can go enforce laws and say to the American taxpayer, you have to comply with this law, yet the Corps itself is ignoring many laws that we write here on this committee..."

"The last thing in the world we need is to have $1 trillion sitting in the bank because we can't spend it because we are stuck on preconstruction activities."

"This project is not going to be the silver bullet, but it together with other proposals... will provide substantial relief."