Roger Wicker actually said...

I think every State from Texas on up around the coast and up the eastern seaboard, we are eager to be part of economic expansion and job cre...

We want the inland waterway system to be part of a solution to the President's goal that we increase American exports.

We need to look at this what I call self-perpetuating cycle. When the dredging isn't there, fewer goods and less valuable goods come through...

The MR&T is a Federal project that works. Yet we are not fully utilizing this proven investment.