Garret Graves

The West Shore Project in Louisiana was in a study phase for 42 years before the report being finished last year.

I signed a letter together with Congressman DeFazio asking the President to dedicate the Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund.

The mission you have is absolutely critical to this Nation, whether it is facilitating maritime commerce from global trade...

It seems like it is contradictory.

I blame some of your predecessors for the land loss in Louisiana, and I am just asking you to be part of the solution.

5 years is just an unacceptable timeline you are having that kind of money in the bank.

Regardless, myself, the Governor of Louisiana, and many others advocated that the Corps had $250 million in hand.

I am bringing home from this hearing a very loud concern from the committee about the possible disparity...

I want to understand how these laws are being implemented to advise your budgeting decisions...

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

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

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

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 understand.

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.

I was the lead trustee for the state of Louisiana. BP can't stand me, because I fought them on everything.

I just want to ask for a commitment that you give us an opportunity to sit and discuss this...

I have quoted often the ranking member's statement that our attempts to--or the FAA's attempts to achieve--to accomplish Next Generation, NextGen, he has actually called it NeverGen, because of the inability of the FAA to fully implement…

I just--I want to caution you in using the term ridiculous when we are talking about this here, because we are potentially talking about lives.

Based upon my read, I think that there was potentially a geographic expansion that occurred here that perhaps wasn't intentional.

Would you be willing to issue a clarifying statement that the rule applies to vessel-to-facility interface areas that handle CDC in bulk?

We need to do a better job getting them back into their communities, and we need to make sure that none of this ever happens again.

You've got to do what's right versus what this manual says, because no two disasters are the same;

A lot of these decisions simply can't be defended, whether it's the amount of time it's taken from a September appropriation...

This whole thing is about people. It's about people.

Because you submitted an amendment and told them to combine the December and September appropriations, which delayed it, Governor.