Thank you, Senator Lautenberg, for those excellent remarks and questions.
It would seem to me that setting aside some emergency money for the Corps would be a wise way to operate.
I want the record to show that the Federal Government responded significantly after that flood of 1927.
I think it would be very helpful for this subcommittee, and I know this is difficult, but you have in your staff a lot o...
$1.7 billion.
Do you have any estimates of what it costs to put projects like that on hold?
Okay, you understand that in the continuing resolution that we are operating on, there is only $2.6 billion for disaster...
When do you think those estimates will come in?
If we had a major earthquake?
So the bottom line is, when we fail to provide the adequate money to the DRF, you sometimes have to stop projects that a...
But after the fiscal year, no. We would have to go back into immediate needs funding to be able to continue providing in...