I think it's extremely difficult to move forward with only protecting the higher income and the downtown areas, while increasing--actually increasing--the flood risk to those with lower incomes, modest incomes, on the other side of the…

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 to be.

The fiscal year 2011 budget for the Corps of Engineers proposes $4.939 billion, which is $506 million below fiscal year 2010 enacted of $5.45 billion.

I'll be calling on you for much more help during the flood fight.

In my judgment, those are the wrong agencies to be cutting in the current economic situation.

I've already asked the Corps districts that cover North Dakota to do as much advance preparation as is possible.

first of all, I am pleased with the work the chairman and ranking member of the Commerce Committee have done. I am chairman of the Aviation Subcommittee and have worked closely with them to produce a piece of legislation that I think is…

The larger question is not addressed directly in this legislation. We address many of these issues, but we do not address the larger question of commuting. I want to show, if I might, something Senator Rockefeller and I and others have…

This merger is uniquely anticompetitive across a number of markets and threatens to restrict consumer choice, reduce programming diversity, and raise prices.

The President has talked about an overall discretionary spending freeze for fiscal year 2011.

I strongly support and, by the way, which, in my judgment, was very constructive in leading us to more progress at the FCC on network neutrality.