I introduced a bill earlier this year to investigate the feasibility of developing 50 megawatts of hydropower from the Diamond Fork Project at the existing dam.
I think the consensus of this subcommittee will not be to support cutting a half a billion dollars out of the Corps of Engineers' funding at...
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 ...
It is a recurring problem and puts a lot of population at risk and property and so on.
My colleagues will remember last year that the Red River flood fight went on for nearly a month.
It just seems to me that a reduction of nearly one-half a billion dollars in fiscal year 2011 in investment in Corps water projects is not g...
Nobody's been stronger in the Senate than Senator Lautenberg.
In my judgment, those are the wrong agencies to be cutting in the current economic situation.
It's a great privilege, but there are other things I wish to do.
I think the construction of the bridge was around $60 million.
the more you can get contractors involved in competition, the lower you're going to experience pricing on these major contracts.