and just van antwerp in my office clearly said that they do. they have authorization, they have authority, they can do the study. they're not going to do it. why don't we compare these options, the relative risk and the relative cost, before the corps of engineers plunges ahead to build the option they themselves say is less secure and less safe? mr. president, the second key issue i have focused on in my letters to the corps is the mandated agmac project, including the buildup of protection banks inner have millian -- vermillian parish, to give vermillian parish. they were devastated in rita again also and in significant events since then. again, mr. president, the corps has authority to do this project. this project is in the wrda bill. the corps says, well, we've busted our spending limits. we have explained to them various ways they can solve that problem by using o&m funds, exactly as they have used o&m funds for bank buildup many other project. or we've given them another route to use a quipr project in conjunction with the wrda project.