This is the reason I will fight once again this year to ensure that the funding formulas for beach replenishment are not changed. Nearly 3 million additional residents found their way to the nation s Southern coastal counties from North Carolina to the Florida peninsula and along the Gulf Coast to Texas. More than 17 million people now live in 81 counties whose shores meet either the Atlantic Ocean or the Gulf of Mexico. That s up nearly 20 percent from 10 years ago. Our no. 1 goal is to eliminate the executive order prohibiting new project starts .
Presidents come and go, but executive orders remain unless they are rescinded.
We have been able to work around this order in the past, but it is a major barrier to national beach management. Remove the cap on reimbursable projects. There are many ways to accomplish projects, so we need to give coastal communities the flexibility to provide the leadership for projects. Strengthen the House and Senate Coastal Caucuses . Several coastal members of Congress retired this year.