1.   For all its ambition, the corps project is unlikely to reclaim all that has been lost on the Snake, Ms. Lichtman said.

2.   The group has led campaigns to block financing for several large corps projects.

3.   But it also deemed as unnecessary a Pentagon effort, now on hold, to give administration officials more say over which projects the corps pursues.

4.   Corps projects are extremely popular on Capitol Hill, where lawmakers compete with each other annually to try to win construction for their home districts.

5.   Nearly a half-year later, however, their goal of overhauling the way major corps projects are approved remains elusive.

6.   The House version of legislation authorizing corps projects is still being written, but several lawmakers said it would contain portions of the Kind bill.