Well, unfortunately, it was a drop in the bucket--out of $787 billion.
Thank you very much, Madam Chair, and thank you for holding the important hearing.
So, that was a mistake, trying to put the time deadline on it.
With a $12 trillion and growing deficit, we cannot continue to throw Federal funds at projects, willy-nilly.
We have immense capacity on our rivers for shipping. It's efficient. It takes far less energy, releases far less pollution, and it's a big a...
I assure you, Mr. Administrator, we will have to do that.
Can we justify that to the taxpayers--not just to Missouri, but to the Nation--for what we'd have to spend?
I want to make sure we're spending it properly. That's the big concern I have.
I hope it doesn't mess you up.
The needs are far greater than the dollars we have.
We're up against the wall now.