Norman D. Dicks: “I appreciate the gentleman yielding. I understand there is a school of thought that we should just let nature take its…”

“I appreciate the gentleman yielding. I understand there is a school of thought that we should just let nature take its way. But on the west coast of Washington State, we have from time to time had to come out and put in replenishment projects to save cities and save housing. We have done this with the Corps of Engineers very effectively using the best science. In Mississippi, they have a big Army Corps center where they study how to do these things. And, it does cost a little bit of money, but we are saving assets, and billions and billions of dollars. I just think that this is a very unfortunate amendment, and we should, in a bipartisan basis, defeat it and let the Corps do what it has to do to save cities and coastal areas across America.”