02/28/2017
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"As has been stated earlier, it was former Chairman Bill Shuster who started the tradition and the commitment to doing a Water Resources Development Act every 2 years, beginning in 2014."
"The Corps has been really pathetically underfunded for decades. The backlog of critical infrastructure projects has grown and grown to tens of billions of dollars."
"This will help reduce the backlog at our ports and reduce the price of goods."
"Since 2014, this committee has been successful in enacting four consecutive, bipartisan WRDA bills."