[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 152 (2006), Part 18]
[Senate]
[Page 23635]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                          MORGANZA TO THE GULF

  Ms. LANDRIEU. Mr. President, I know it is very late and everybody is 
working hard to finish up. We have accomplished a great deal today. But 
I wanted to come to the floor while the majority leader was here to 
explain that there is one small but important project called Morganza 
to the Gulf that the House of Representatives sent over to us about 2 
hours ago. It is a scaled-back version, but the reason I am going to 
stay here until we are able to work this out is because this has been 
approved by the subcommittee chair on the Republican side, the chair on 
the Republican side, the subcommittee chair on the Democratic side, and 
the chair on the Democratic side. This project, Mr. Majority leader, is 
the only project in the entire WRDA bill--in the entire bill that I am 
aware of--that was authorized in the last WRDA bill, but because of a 
technical error, it was left out. It was authorized, not in this WRDA 
bill--well it is, but in two, the last and this one. So it is because 
WRDA, of course, collapsed--and it is a very important bill; I have 
literally billions of dollars of other projects in the WRDA bill--that 
I am not asking to move forward because it would not be fair for me to 
ask to move mine forward because no one else is getting theirs. But 
this project has been signed off by Chairman Inhofe, by Senator Bond, 
and Senator Boxer because they recognize it is unique among projects.
  I now understand it is being held up. I just wanted to speak 
publicly. I wish to stay for a little while to see what we can work out 
and see if we can get this to the House, the Morganza to the Gulf has 
already been scaled back, and try to get it done before we leave.
  I yield the floor.
  Mr. FRIST. Mr. President, in response to my colleague, through the 
Chair, there are a number of pieces of legislation we are continuing to 
look at tonight. I know this is one about which discussions are 
ongoing. We will actually be looking at that with many others.
  I have to say we do have scores and scores of pieces of legislation 
that are similar that have come forward--not exactly, they have not 
gone through two authorization projects--that have to be considered as 
well.

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