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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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 understand.

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

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

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 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 was absent from votes today on account of traveling with the Vice President on official business to Louisiana. Had I been present, I would have voted ``yea'' on Roll Call No. 274, ``yea'' on Roll Call No. 275, ``yea'' on Roll Call No…

I was absent from votes today on account of traveling with the Vice President on official business to Louisiana. Had I been present, I would have voted ``nay'' on rollcall No. 279, ``nay'' on rollcall No. 280, ``nay'' on rollcall No. 281…

I want to thank the gentleman from Colorado (Mr. Buck) for his efforts and leadership on this issue. Mr. Speaker, I rise today because I think it is really important that we talk about law enforcement; we talk about what their role is…

I want to thank the subcommittee chairman and ranking member for their assistance, and I also want to thank our lead cosponsor, Mr. Sires of New Jersey. Mr. Speaker, this legislation is an unfortunate situation, that Congress actually has…

I thank the gentleman for yielding. I want to commend the gentleman from Illinois (Mr. Rodney Davis) and the gentlewoman from Illinois (Mrs. Bustos) for coming together to work in a bipartisan manner to address a problem that affects not…

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

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

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.

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