Corps 2006 Budget Picture Brightens

摘要

Firms that pursue Corps of Engi-neers work groaned after Presi-dent Bush proposed a 14% cut in the 2006 civil works budget. Hopes rose when the House approved $414 million more than Bush did. Now, industry is smiling after Senate appropriators boosted the Corps by a further $552 million. "We were very pleased that the House went up, but the Senate is just phenomenal," says National Waterways Conference President Worth Hager. Figures won't be final, how- ever, until the full Senate votes and its