Bud Shuster: “I question our priorities when in these times of trillion dollar budget surpluses, we cannot find the commitment to make…”

I just want to say the ranking member is 100 percent correct on his assessment of the harbor maintenance trust fund. I support it. He is absolutely right. I just want to make sure, when he is referring to BS, he is not referring to Bill…

I want to thank the chairman of the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment for his hard work on this piece of legislation. I appreciate all of his efforts and his knowledge he put into making sure that bill is a good product…

I thank the gentleman from Alaska for offering this amendment. As always, the gentleman is looking out for the State of Alaska and also small and rural towns across America. So this is an important issue, and I thank my colleague for…

I thank the gentleman for offering this amendment, which does require the Corps to include complete deposition studies in future Corps plans where practicable. Mr. Chair, I am prepared to accept the amendment, and I yield back the balance…