Pete Domenici: “I am concerned that the Administration, in its fiscal year 2004 request, has under-funded the Corps of Engineers.”

That is clearly a part of it, no question.

I think you raise a good point. We have to be careful about the issue you raised. It is a serious one.

I think it is very important, for some of you who have gone through lame duck, to make sure that you know it is not the best choice of an arena to which you would assign the solution of major problems.

It seems to me that sooner or later something has to be done. The economy is suffering from an awful lot of people not knowing what is going to happen.