James Lankford: “I would like to bring up my support for this bill but also to be able to talk about the limited funds that the Corps of…”

“I would like to bring up my support for this bill but also to be able to talk about the limited funds that the Corps of Engineers have. They have very limited funds because the United States of America obviously has limited funds, what we actually receive from the taxpayers. There is a study within this bill itself that is being proposed that looks at the low-priority projects and the things that are not within the core mission of the Corps of Engineers. That study doesn't need to be a study to nowhere. It does need to be a study to look at the low-priority inventory and then just go in a drawer and say, Gosh, we have low- priority inventory that we can't afford to maintain that sits closed and a local municipality can't open it. So we need to be able to establish the next step on that.”