Part of the delay was the funding stream that came in for that particular project that would start and stop.

WRDA 2007 requires an independent technical review of our work on particular projects that are over $45 million or are contentious.

infrastructure is key to the future, being competitive is going to be very important.

Thank you, Connie. Good morning, everyone. I'm pleased to tell you this is the last report of the morning prior to our election, which I suspect will go very swiftly and without controversy. I'd like to thank Connie for her gracious…

The word '100-year' storm is actually a misnomer.

I urge all Members to join me in support of this bill, and I yield back the balance of my time. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the motion offered by the gentleman from Illinois (Mr. Walsh) that the House suspend the rules and…

Reclaiming my time, again, I would say Congress, in today's day and age, where we hit $16 trillion in debt last week, Congress, like all institutions in this country, needs to figure out how to work more efficiently and save hard-earned…

I appreciate the concerns of my colleague, and I would only note that new technology, I think, has made it easier to teleconference and communicate remotely. This not only would save money, which is important, but it has already and will…

Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and thank you, Ranking Member Velazquez. As you know, the SBA has proposed radically new size standards for small business government contracting that do not just alter the size standard for each industry, but, in…

I also want to thank Chairman Upton and Ranking Member Waxman of the full committee as well.

I also want to thank Chairman Pitts and Ranking Member Pallone for your willingness to address these issues.

I think it is important that we have something very strict and by law that we can operate off of.

Thank you, Mr. President. Madam Speaker, colleagues, good morning. It's great to be with you. As you may recall from our last report to Congress, the Association has put some energy and focus into the question of bipartisanship. Everything…

It is absolutely essential that we have from the local governments what they want for us to formulate.

I would just hope that that terminology changes to be the one plan, the consensus plan, as opposed to the Corps plan.

The peace process in Northern Ireland is in serious trouble. The Good Friday agreement we cautiously celebrated last spring is now under attack from within. Ulster Party leader David Trimble, who signed the agreement just nine months ago…

my tribute to Ed Madigan is on behalf of myself, because I lost a friend, and my father, who had the pleasure of serving with Ed Madigan in this House a little over a decade ago, and who indeed, also, has lost a friend. Because it is true…