Tom Rice actually said...

"When I became a congressman, I went to the Corps and asked them what we needed to do to get it dredged."

"I think that, at least in my district back home, that we are--we are struggling and gnashing our teeth and pulling our hair trying to get projects done."

"It seems the Corps has become an entity that obstructs rather than promotes these projects."

"Yet it was held up for years by requirements placed on us by the Corps because an environmental group wrote a letter."