"Congress has tried to pass Water Resources Development Acts (WRDA) every 2 years, with varying success."
"the Inland Waterways Trust Fund no longer contains a surplus, and annual revenues are not sufficient to support investments"
"What will you do to ensure those of us that believe the Corps is doing a good job of performing environmental review of these permits, as recognized by the courts, that the flow of permits will no lon..."
"I've been concerned that they're not getting their resources. I was one of them who, when the continent was divided into three different commands, said that it would make much more sense to have AFRIC..."
"Forget about the politics, just the importance of the European site, from a military perspective."
"Would you give a very brief assessment as to what successes or failures they're having up there on that?"
"Do you think the quality of training today is as good as it was when we had that integrated training at Vieques?"
"I would say it looks like the Iranian threat will persist."
"I think those four programs are among the most significant programs that we have going for us right now."
"I have been told, over there, that, by spending no more money, but by handling the cashflow in the IMET program, that we would--and maybe having a multiyear program--it would not be scored, and it wou..."
"this kind of earmarking breeds corruption which then lowers the opinion and reputation of the Congress of the United States."