Mitch Landrieu: “So I hope the President will reconsider this number, the lowest investment since 1929. I hope he will look at the…”

“So I hope the President will reconsider this number, the lowest investment since 1929. I hope he will look at the hurricane maps, and then I hope he will look at the land loss in Louisiana. I would like to just end with this. We have lost more than twice the amount of land in just the last storm--these red dots represent significant land loss--that if an enemy came and took this land away from us, we would declare World War III. But it is not an enemy, it is ourselves. So let us pass the WRDA bill. I thank the chairman and the ranking member for their extraordinary leadership. There are many good reasons to pass this bill, and I hope we can get a good vote in just a few minutes.”