We need to do the Comite River diversion program. We need to erase the backlog of $724 million in emergency dollars through the Department of Transportation.

This is an entirely insufficient situation.

I think it's ridiculous. This is why people get so frustrated and why there are T-shirts that use an alternative acronym for 'FEMA' on Bourbon Street.

There is this unbelievable perception out there that the cost of inaction is free.

It is absolutely unacceptable to think that we're going to find a way to charity ourselves out of this thing.

And, most essentially, we need that $2 billion Community Development Block Grant program so that we can try to go in and convince these people that the right thing to do is to stay in their communities.

But then we've got to make sure that our response from Washington is targeted on responding to this storm in the most effective way, learning from other mistakes.

What we're saying is we want to mitigate in a very smart way, which is, if we do our Comite project and other things, we will manage the water that we receive so that even a thousand-year storm we can survive.

If you can save money--if you can save money, provide a more stable, preferable environment for the law enforcement community, why would you not do that?

We've got to work to get it right.

So homes will be not only--have they been not only underwater, now they're going to be underwater and people walking away and their jobs.

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this really has become now about more than oversight; it is about micromanaging the presidency--more specifically, micromanaging President Barack Obama.

The genesis of this hearing is a meeting that took place at or near the time President Obama was being sworn in.

Truth, crushed to earth, shall rise again.

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