If he spent some time understanding who we are and what we're about and the things that we love. And we're different people. That doesn't mean that we're bad. I think we're the best people in the country.

People, it's not going to be -- it's not going to be good at all, and I'm -- I'm very -- I spoke to LSU law graduates today. And people don't feel like there's a system for recompense, that there's a system where justice can be meted out.

I think it's criminal. And I think that, you know, one of the things this President is going to have to do is he's going to have launch a massive criminal investigation.

And I think that's a real positive step in the right direction, saying that he's not going to abandon Louisiana and that he's committed to it, and he's committed beyond the time the cameras are here.

I thank the gentleman for yielding. First of all, I want to congratulate the chairman and ranking member for an excellent mark. I voted for it coming out of committee. I have three amendments in en bloc, two I would like to mention…

David Axelrod, Robert Gibbs, come down here. I'll take you around. We'll take you out and show you. We don't want to be mad. We want you to help us.

We're different people here in South Louisiana. We want our culture. And it's being destroyed, and it's been destroyed over a period of time, and we're sick of it.

If this thing goes on here for another, you know, week, things are going to get dicey down here.

They're sick of it. They're sick of being second.

I think that, you know, one of the things this president is going to have to do is, he's going to have launch a massive criminal investigation.

Ms. Obama is doing this wonderful thing about healthy eating. The healthiest food in the world is produced off the Louisiana coast: shrimp, oysters, crab, fish.

I think the secretary of interior was precisely right.

If this would have happened in Nantucket, if this would have happened in San Francisco Bay, if this would have happened in the Chesapeake Bay, if this would have happened in Lake Michigan, the response would have been entirely different.

The president did say the right things today. And I think that's a real positive step in the right direction, saying that he's not going to abandon Louisiana.

If they're guilty of something, they've got to be brought to the bar of justice.

I didn't think it was a good press conference I'll be honest with you.

I tell you what, you issue some grand jury subpoena, it will get fixed pronto.

I want to thank Senator Murkowski for her great work on this.