We never expected that nearly 13 years later, we would be making yet another request to protect the city from the flood emergency caused by the waters of Devils Lake.

Your projections about Devils Lake are projections that say 98 percent certainty we're going to exceed the record level of Devils Lake.

I don't know whether you have an emergency pot of money, but given what we have heard recently now, of potential major flooding on the Red and almost certain flooding above highest levels at Devils Lake, you might want to at least go back…

I think all of us agree that there needs to be that type of permanent solution.

the city has secured nearly $7.5 million in Federal grants, including $5.9 million from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and $1.6 million from the EPA.

You've painted a pretty ominous picture of what might be ahead of us in the next several months in North Dakota.

I'm very anxious to work with you and the city of Moorhead, and to proceed to get it done.

Everything possible must be done to keep the inlet viable in Congress as a long-term option.

What specific preparations are underway now by the cities and the States and also the Corps?

I think, mayor, the three most significant floods, if I read this graph correctly, well, the most significant, of course, is 1997, then 2006--or 1969.

It seems to me that the lack of some sort of central goal or aspiration for our country has been prevalent for a long, long while.

If we're going to move toward an electric-drive-vehicle future, nearly 70 percent of the oil we use in the transportation fleet comes from outside of our country--if we're going to do all this, it seems to me you logically have to create…