A flat budget is a declining budget for your agencies, and that's just a fact because you have additional salary and other expenses from inflation.
If we don't get serious about the infrastructure, yes, roads, bridges, water projects, you name it, we won't be the kind of country we used ...
The fiscal year 2011 budget for the Corps of Engineers proposes $4.939 billion, which is $506 million below fiscal year 2010 enacted of $5.4...
I'll be calling on you for much more help during the flood fight.
I'm very, very concerned about it, and I think, Secretary Darcy, you know how concerned all of us are from the Great Lakes about something t...
In my judgment, those are the wrong agencies to be cutting in the current economic situation.
The President has talked about an overall discretionary spending freeze for fiscal year 2011.
I've already asked the Corps districts that cover North Dakota to do as much advance preparation as is possible.
the fact is some of the biggest interests spend all of their time trying to prevent action being taken industry wide.
I think we should separate some of these issues that we are talking about.
I think this is a significant issue. We should think through it carefully, understand the consequences, pro and con, and then make judgments...