07/15/2009
https://www.congress.gov...
"It is a problem that I don't expect you to solve today, but it is one I am going to work with you to solve."
"An important example of the administration's failure to set priorities is in my home State of Tennessee: the lack of any funds in the president's budget request to restart replacement of Chickamauga L..."
"It doesn't make common sense that we would want to be a great country with great ports and a great inland waterway system, that we would be collecting money from taxes on cargo and from users of inlan..."
"This budget proposes cutting the Corps' funding to the actual level of spending in 2007--we are literally moving backward, on an agency that is crucial to maintaining our country's infrastructure."