[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 152 (2006), Part 11]
[Senate]
[Pages 14439-14440]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                 CORRECTION IN THE CONGRESSIONAL RECORD

  Mr. FRIST. Mr. President, I understand there was an inadvertent 
clerical error in Chairman Inhofe's statement in the Congressional 
Record last night. I ask unanimous consent that the correct statement 
be printed in the Congressional Record at this point and that the 
permanent Record reflect this correction.
  There being no objection, the statement was ordered to be printed in 
the Record, as follows:

       Mr. Inhofe. Mr. President, if the unanimous consent request 
     goes through, we will be able to move to the Water Resources 
     Development Act of 2006, WRDA. We have not done a WRDA since 
     the year 2000. As chairman of the Environment and Public 
     Works Committee, I have been working on this for 3 years. We 
     have had incredible cooperation, as everybody in the Chamber 
     knows. It is always difficult to get something like this 
     through, but it is necessary to keep this country moving.
       All members of the Environment and Public Works Committee: 
     Senators Thune, DeMint, Vitter, Warner, Isakson, Chafee, 
     Murkowski, Senator Voinovich, Jeffords, Baucus, Lieberman, 
     Boxer, Carper, Clinton, Lautenberg, and Obama have been 
     particularly helpful. Senator Bond, who is chairman of the 
     subcommittee, has been very helpful,

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     along with Senator Voinovich who has a concern for 
     maintaining our Nation's infrastructure.
       The big four in this case, of course, would be Senators 
     Bond, Baucus, Jeffords, and myself. We have worked closely 
     together to overcome some of the obstacles. Early on, there 
     were several holds on this bill because it is complicated. It 
     is one that almost is of the magnitude of the Transportation 
     reauthorization bill. But we had several people who had 
     concerns and we worked with them, including Senator Snowe, 
     who was nice enough to help us with some of the facets she 
     had objections to; Senator Sessions; Senator McCain. 
     Everybody was there working together. It was quite an 
     undertaking to get us to the point where we are today.
       I will single out several others. Senator Gregg had some 
     concerns also. Probably one of the persons I was really 
     gratified to work with is Senator Feingold, the Senator from 
     Wisconsin. I thank him for his cooperation. He had a number 
     of amendments that I thought would be more than we could 
     really handle. We had to get the number down to a certain 
     number that is workable so we could have a time agreement to 
     get this bill passed. I thank Senator Feingold for his 
     cooperation and for agreeing to offer limited amendments 
     under short time agreements. If he wanted to be hard to get 
     along with, he could have had long agreements and this would 
     have gone into many nights. He didn't do that. He agreed to 
     short time agreements, which will make this possible to pass. 
     His willingness to work with us is very much appreciated by 
     me.
       Over the past few months, he consistently has been helpful 
     and responsive in working on the WRDA bill. For anyone to 
     suggest that Senator Feingold has not been helpful in keeping 
     this process moving would be wrong. He has been a great 
     partner with me in moving things forward and I thank the 
     Senator from Wisconsin for his cooperation.
       We have a lot that we need to authorize the Corps of 
     Engineers to do in navigation, flood control and 
     environmental restoration. This bill will allow us to do 
     that. I thank everybody for his or her cooperation. Let's go 
     forward.

  Mr. FRIST. Mr. President, I thank my colleagues, especially Chairman 
Inhofe, for, as I mentioned this morning, doing an outstanding job in 
putting together a package, a mechanism by which we can develop this 
important water resources development bill. It is a very important bill 
which affects the United States, our economy, our infrastructure, in a 
very dramatic way.

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