Dave Joyce

It is game, set, match if they get in the Lakes.

Lake Erie is very important and critical for drinking water, but it also supports commercial and sport fishing, to name only a few of the benefits.

I would like to talk about sage grouse.

The cuts in some of these Indian programs are just not acceptable.

We will see a serious balanced budget when we see serious entitlement reform.

You do not balance the budget on the back of your poorest citizens.

I have got to tell you, Mr. Secretary, that is music to our ears.

Isn't that what is used to make baseball bats?

If you like to fish we have some pretty good fishing, too.

I frankly take it as a personal offense that the Government of the United States... doesn't consider the Great Lakes and our urban areas important enough to focus on trees.

There has to be some type of, I do not care who the local authorities are.

I am sorry, but I do not find it humorous.

While I appreciate their directive in providing cohesive regional planning, it is important to me that we do not continue down a path of federalizing community planning.

I wish you Godspeed to that end.

Cities end up owning a large percentage of these properties and, therefore, have the responsibility of maintaining or demolishing them.

We have been darn close to brownouts because of the shutting down of the coal plants.

We have the GLRI, which under Chairman Calvert's authority does so well at making all of the agencies work together.

Governmental agencies should not be the cause of any of these problems.

Somewhere in the city right now is the CEO of ArcelorMittal, and they cannot be held hostage because they cannot get the ships down to the----

I appreciate that, because it was a limited issue at that time that the court had to consider.

The court order was fairly clear, was it not?

Given all of this, I feel strongly that the Army Corps should work with principal stakeholders to craft a long-term solution for upland placement and sediment reuse whenever possible.

It is hard to fathom that they push out a half trillion gallons of freshwater into the ocean every year because they can't contain it in the Everglades.

But the bottom line is we are already behind. We must act.

The world is looking to the United States to lead, and I am concerned that delaying consideration of the emergency supplemental is leaving the American public, particularly women who are pregnant or could soon be pregnant, at severe risk.