12/14/2011
https://www.congress.gov...
"The reason this budget request is such a problem is that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers touches the lives of almost every American."
"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."
"The President's budget estimates the Inland Waterways Trust Fund revenues, the taxes collected, for the purpose of helping the locks for this next year, are $105 million dollars."
"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?"