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

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.

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.

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----

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.

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