Political Quotes

“The issue that I am concerned about, and I hope the House will take a step back and look very carefully at this, is that we are moving ahead with a significant sum of money to try and deal with what in and of itself was a failed project in the past. This water resources project years ago was well-intended, but has moved in the wrong direction. It is an issue that I am personally concerned with. As we speak today, this Congress has not exercised appropriate oversight for other water resources projects where we have not laid an appropriate foundation environmentally in engineering terms to make sure that we are not spending good money after bad. My colleagues will hear in the course of the debate, both on the rule and on the measure itself, that there is not at this point a clear understanding of the exact nature of the problem, and despite years of study and engineering research, there is not a good plan in hand right now.”