I would just like to follow up on the chairman of the committee's comments. The 2007 cite that Chairman Shuster referenced goes back to actually a WRDA 1999 provision. I believe it is section 212 of WRDA 1999 that actually provides the…

The ranking member was talking earlier about this extraordinary backlog of projects that we have within the United States Army Corps of Engineers to carry out important projects like flood protection, hurricane protection, and ecological…

I am going to go back and say what I said before. In previous projects that I have worked with in the United States Army Corps of Engineers, we have been able to save Federal taxpayers tens of millions of dollars, cumulatively hundreds of…

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: At the end of title I, add the following: SEC. __. NON-FEDERAL INTEREST SELECTION. (a) In General.--Not…

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: At the end of title I, add the following: SEC. ___. FLOOD MITIGATION AND RIVERINE RESTORATION PROGRAM. The…

I thank the gentleman. Right now, as the provision is written, as you know, it is silent on that issue, and so it doesn't address the Davis-Bacon issue, as I am aware the Corps of Engineers would be complying with. Mr. DeFAZIO. Reclaiming…

What this amendment does is it simply puts a cap on the amount of time that the United States Army Corps of Engineers can consider permission under section 408. This process has to do with alteration, any changes, or impacts that could…

Beginning around August 11, we had a 1,000-year flood event. This flood event was approximately 7 trillion gallons of water. It dropped 31 inches of rain in some of the peak areas that is the national average annual rainfall. We received…

I want to thank Chairman Shuster, Ranking Member DeFazio, and so many of the other Members who worked on this bill. I think it is important that we get the Water Resources Development Act back on a 2-year cycle. We got off to where there…

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: At the end of title I, add the following: SEC. ___. LOCAL FLOOD PROTECTION WORKS. (1) In…

August 20th of this year was a Saturday, and I was in Denham Springs, Louisiana. I was gutting a home, ripping out Sheetrock, tearing out floors, throwing out furniture, throwing out photo albums, appliances, and family heirlooms. Mr…

On rollcall No. 544, I was in discussions on Louisiana flood relief funding. Had I been present, I would have voted ``yes.''

the greatest cause of land loss in coastal Louisiana is the Federal Government, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

part of the justification for rejecting the pipeline was because there was a greenhouse gas analysis that was done to determine it was going to contribute to emissions of greenhouse gas.

If I destroyed something, you would come after me. And if I destroyed wetlands, you know who would come after me? The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, yet they are the greatest cause of loss to coastal wetlands in the Nation.

Coastal Louisiana has lost about 1,900 square miles of wetlands and some of the most productive ecosystem on this entire continent.

But doesn't that seem a little bit strange, that you would blame Keystone XL Pipeline on greenhouse gas emissions, yet for the Iran nuclear agreement you have the fourth-largest reserves of the world--if I recall correctly--of oil…

Yet the Administration is effectively doing nothing but throwing up roadblocks in our efforts to actually restore wetlands.

We've got to work to get it right.

I don't think that can work that way.

If you can save money--if you can save money, provide a more stable, preferable environment for the law enforcement community, why would you not do that?

It is absolutely unacceptable to think that we're going to find a way to charity ourselves out of this thing.

If our first thought is always that America's citizens are looking for a way to beat the system, then we're never going to make any progress.

But then we've got to make sure that our response from Washington is targeted on responding to this storm in the most effective way, learning from other mistakes.

There is this unbelievable perception out there that the cost of inaction is free.