mr. shattuck, welcome. >> mr. vetter? >> thank you. as i mentioned, garate graves as you today as a louisianan trustee, and he also serves as the chair of the coastal protection and restoration of 40 of louisiana. that is a state cabinet level position over all of the coastal restoration protection. before that, was honored to have him on my staff serving with me and he served many members of louisiana's delegation of for several years. he was involved in virtually every water resource coastal restoration related bill going through the process while he was here, very able and i know louisianan's interests are in very good hands. >> thank you. >> senator whitehouse? >> i want to recognize dean leinen. as i said it's a better day for the graduate school of oceanography with both a graduate in the first panel and former dean on this panel. he was kind enough to return to the graduate school of oceanography for the 50th anniversary and my timing is right and she was actually the dena of the graduate school at the time my wife got her ph.d.

mr. shattuck, welcome. >> mr. vetter? >> thank you.as i mentioned, garate graves as you today as a louisianan trustee, and he also serves as the chair of the coastal protection and restoration of 40 of louisiana. that is a state cabinet level position over all of the coastal restoration protection. before that, was honored to have him on my staff serving with me and he served many members of louisiana's delegation of for several years. he was involved in virtually every water resource coastal restoration related bill going through the process while he was here, very able and i know louisianan's interests are in very good hands. >> thank you. >> senator whitehouse? >> i want to recognize dean leinen. as i said it's a better day for the graduate school of oceanography with both a graduate in the first panel and former dean on this panel. he was kind enough to return to the graduate school of oceanography for the 50th anniversary and my timing is right and she was actually the dena of the graduate school at the time my wife got her ph.d.

shattuck. thank you, mr. chairman. >> thank you, senator sessions.i had the chance to visit with senator vitter and i appreciate his leadership and keeping us informed of the conditions in the polls to senator vitter. >> thank you for that visit and all of your work in banks to senator sessions. we obviously partnered a lot during this tragedy and the follow-up as well as with other gold colleagues. thank you for this hearing, certainly very important here at an also like to personally think garrett graves here's a trustee to louisiana restoration efforts, former member of my staff and a lot can staff with the louisiana delegation now serving as chair of the coastal protection and restoration authority of louisiana. as we are all aware, the deepwater rice into fast your was a great disaster starting with a loss of 11 lines -- 11 of our fellow americans hard-working, contributing members of society who left this world far too soon. the incident also resulted in the largest oil spill in history, and incident that pummeled the gold coast and left a sign

mr. shattuck. since i'll be chairing the remainder of the drink we will therefore by definition be here until the end. i will not, my disdain which ranking member way to my question but will allow, i yield to him so he may proceed. >> thank you mr. chairman. we have done this before. the judiciary subcommittee that you and i have participated in. ranking and chair. mr. shattuck, thank you for your comment. i am pleased to see the emphasis on collaboration and cooperation, and openness in the process. the only flipside of that going at it is somebody in charge, can we make sure it happens on time, but you've always selected projects that would commence before the year is outcome is that correct? >> we're in the process of selecting projects. we hope to have been selected by the end of july to be implemented before the end of this year. >> and the 80 trustees, do they vote individually? is about how the decisions are made? >> yes, sir. each trustee, and their seven, one from each state, one from noaa