Peter DeFazio actually said...

this was an attempt to restore what I always thought was a good principle, which is those who were elected from local areas better understan...

Now earmarks got a bad name. I won't go into that for various reasons. And they were banned. Well, that was stupid.

Last time I checked--and someone on the panel can probably correct me--the Corps had more than a $40 billion--``b,'' billion--backlog of cri...

I certainly agree with you about the extraordinary importance to the concentrated population on the east coast of the United States on the u...