03/08/2016
https://www.congress.gov...
"We're here today to review the president's fiscal year 2018 budget request for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the Bureau of Reclamation."
"I value the relationship we have, and the way we are able to work together with our staffs."
"Since 2014, working with the Corps, once we created the priority list of projects, Congress has appropriated all of the tax money that we collected."
"So we are collecting $105 million in taxes for the purpose of fixing the locks and we are only spending $26 million for fixing the locks?"