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.

I think all of us understand the urgency and the tension whenever we hear, again, a flood threat.

the concern would be, as Mr. Frink said, that it would go south, it would go what's referred to as the Surry Route.

There's an old saying, 'If you don't care where you're going, you're never going to be lost.' The point is, we need to have a direction, here, as a country.

I can't think of a more effective system in the world to allocate goods and services than the free market, frankly.

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…

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.

Let's decide where America wants to head, here. Let's decide, for the next decade, where we want to go with respect to energy.

I think that's necessary. We've certainly built rail lines and so on to accommodate the ability to move coal.

Last year, through your yeoman efforts, Chairman Dorgan, and our Alaska Senator Murkowski, a reauthorization was finally debated and approved by the Senate.

I think the advice a couple of you have given us today of not reintroducing the same bill, is good advice.