I was looking through the notes that I have been given by my staff before the hearing, and we had been advised that there was serious consideration given to placing in some Mississippi reservoirs a repository for nuclear waste.

It occurs to us that there are inevitably going to be costs imposed on landowners and others, state governments, on and on.

Would you discuss the need to evaluate the interceptor site and radar?

We have money that is available and can be spent and is authorized for funding in the Yazoo River basin in Mississippi.

Mr. Secretary, we appreciate your leadership, and we know you've got a lot of jurisdictional area that's affected by the appropriations bill.

why the administration has reduced its request for funding for people who will be used at the Department to help producers comply

I think you have done an excellent job in outlining the issues that we need to be aware of.

I join you in welcoming the distinguished Secretary to our hearing and I am looking forward to working with her.

I also want to support especially the Gulf of Mexico energy security legislation allowing Gulf States to receive specific portions of the revenues.

In light of this deficiency, do you believe it would be wise to accelerate the build plan of certain amphibious ships?

If sequestration is implemented in fiscal year 2016, it will damage our national security.

In closing, then, let me thank our distinguished panel of witnesses for your testimony.

I encourage the Senate to vote to send the Homeland Security appropriations bill to conference with the House. That should be the order of business. We have been wrangling over this bill for 3 months now. The legislative maneuvering has…

for the information of all Senators, the bill is not amendable in the Senate and we cannot take further action. Therefore, I move to table the House message, and I ask for the yeas and nays. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there a sufficient…

I am very pleased to join my friend in introducing legislation celebrating Black History Month. This opportunity provides us with an excuse, if we need one, to remember the challenges and the failures of the past, and the embarrassments…

the Senate Appropriations Committee has adopted rules governing its procedures for the 114th Congress. Pursuant to rule XXVI, paragraph 2, of the Standing Rules of the Senate, on behalf of myself and Vice Chairwoman Mikulski, I ask…

We appreciate very much your assistance in helping us identify the priorities of NASA and related activities.

it is sometimes said that the work of the staff is little noticed until something goes wrong. Today, I wish to make comments about a member of the staff of the Appropriations Committee for a different reason: the outstanding record of…

It is a budgetary matter.

We started out poor, and we're getting poorer.

I question the level of priority this administration is placing on our Nation's critical infrastructure.

Please identify any non-government organizations or individuals that had any role whatsoever in composing, editing, drafting, reviewing or developing any part of the FFRMS.

Mr. Chairman, thank you very much for presiding over this hearing and providing leadership for our subcommittee.

Mr. Chairman, thank you for convening this hearing to review the President's fiscal year 2016 Budget request for the U.S. Army, Corps of Engineers and the Bureau of Reclamation.

The Yazoo Backwater projects in the Mississippi Delta region are also going to be subjected to substantial cuts.