Political Quotes

“I want to thank the chairman for yielding, but especially I want to thank Chairman Shuster for the hard work that he put in to putting together a bill that--and I will just read The Wall Street Journal today: ``A water bill shows what happens when Congress has to set priorities.'' They go on to say: ``This process puts House Members in control of spending decisions even as it requires them to choose on the basis of fact and analysis.'' Mr. Speaker, what this bill really does is ushers in some much-needed reforms, if you just look at the reforms to the Corps of Engineers process. I want to also commend our Senator, David Vitter, who was on that conference committee, for fighting for this, as Chairman Shuster did, to put those process reforms in place, because so often we hear that the corps studies issues to death. Frankly, if you look at some of the limitations, the environmental review process, that can bog projects down, this bill contains important reforms that streamline the environmental review process so that we can finally focus on more building and less studying. Let's actually put our money into building infrastructure, not on studying things to death and ultimately never getting anything done. This bill really ushers in some important reforms on that front.…”