While reading your testimony, I was most interested in what steps you take to increase the percentage of leased onshore lands which are currently producing.
We are losing 25 to 35 square miles of wetlands per year--about a football field an hour--which places millions of lives...
I'm going to write a letter to the President, and ask you all to sign it, and ask him to adjust his budget.
I say we cannot afford not to make them.
This budget that we have in front of us... simply does not have enough money to maintain or invest or build the structur...
If there was ever an example of what's going to happen, when the levees broke in New Orleans... is there any other case ...
We also have to be sensitive to the taxpayers that are picking up this tab.
If we don't really understand this mitigation, sort of one for one, like if you take an acre of wetlands, you have to re...
I'm going to be on a tear this year to focus on our water transport because it's crucial.
There's no way around it. And until we can figure out a way to put more private and public money on the table, we're not...
And I agree with the Senator that we have to think big, but we're going to need a bigger budget to do that.