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

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

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----

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

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.

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

the court order was fairly clear, was it not?

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.

We can't afford to let some of these brilliant researchers not get the support they need.

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

In the past 2 years, there have been harmful algal blooms on Lake Erie that have impacted access to safe drinking water.

For years, every year I have been here, we have watched the administration cut funding for GLRI.

Considering we started at $475 million, and you have been proposing cuts was ever since.

I learned a great lesson from Representative Kaptur.

How will the administration's proposed $50 million cut to the GLRI impact our ability to restore and maintain the environmental integrity of the Great Lakes ecosystem?

So, Director Ashe, I would like to get a little bit of an update from you on how the Fish and Wildlife Service is leveraging funds.

I believe Sergeant Major Green brought up the nurses having a problem with credentialing.

How would they be impacted by BRAC?

I have to tell you that one of the most stunning things to me being from Ohio when I got on this committee was the amount of money we spend on fire suppression.

I really believe this is one of the most bipartisan, as I said before, intra-governmental, non-governmental programs, and we are all working together.

The source of fires in our neighborhood is mostly fireplaces.

Level funding, in some instances, is a victory.

The Great Lakes are a monumentally unique national treasure containing nearly 95 percent of the United States fresh surface water.

We urge you to get on top of this issue because we only have once chance to do this right.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has a critical role to play in working with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to help it understand the urgency relating to the movement of Asian carp toward Lake Michigan.