06/29/2011
https://www.congress.gov...
"Today's first Transportation and Infrastructure Subcommittee hearing is on a subject that is very important to Nation, including my home State of Oklahoma."
"The September 2016 floods which impacted Cedar Rapids where the Cedar River crested at a level second to only the 2008, 500-year flood event, caused Cedar Rapids to lose $26 million in sales and produ..."
"I think that is good. There is not time to give the examples that are out there but it is a bureaucratic problem."
"In Oklahoma, we know these benefits firsthand with ports along the McClellan-Kerr-Arkansas Navigation System connecting Oklahoma with the Mississippi River and with the rest of the world."