If there`s a silver lining, and today, it`s kind of hard to see one, it is that our levee systems really did perform extremely well.

Many of the life supporting infrastructure elements are not present. They`re not operating right now. So if you have already evacuated, do not return here or elsewhere in southeast Louisiana until the Office of Emergency Preparedness tells…

if there was something that was bipartisan, that was not tied to party, infrastructure is just that.

We should use our infrastructure dollars to put our powerlines underground and build back better so we can be able to be much more resilient going forward.

I will just tell you that I had a number of conversations overnight and today with parish presidents and other officials who believe that the death count attributable to the hurricane will go up because they see catastrophic damage in…

Either pain on shore with everything that was advertised. The surge, the rain, the wind, all of our levee systems, particularly our federal levee systems and hurricane risk reduction systems performed magnificently. Having said that, the…

If you have already evacuated, do not return here or elsewhere in Southeast Louisiana until the Office of Emergency Preparedness tells you it is ready to receive you.

This is part of the reason why we're pushing so hard to invest in the crumbling infrastructure in this country, because we know that we need to do it.

The second thing I would say on the trillion dollars on infrastructure investment, that it's a trillion dollars more than any other president has spent.

We're leading on search-and-rescue. So there's a number of things we're doing because we're very intentional about it.

Well, the other thing we're doing right now is to make sure we can get the nuclear plant back online, so that we can provide electricity to New Orleans.

the governor of this state has been very responsible about trying to ensure that masks can occur where they need to.

There's been a preliminary damage assessment of levees today, people getting eyes on those levees. We don't believe there was a single levee anywhere now that actually breached that failed.

Louisiana's governor saying he expects it to rise quote considerably.

I think we had a good shot the Senate race. I think (INAUDIBLE) is an incredibly good candidate who’d run terrible campaigns down now.

There’s no good way to lose a war. We lost this war. We lost it a long time before Joe Biden became president. All he’s doing is getting us out of that.

Madam Speaker, today I rise to recognize Marty Reiser, a man of immense character and integrity who selflessly served the American people for over 20 years. After graduating from the College of the Holy Cross, Marty started at the…

Madam Speaker, I thank the gentlewoman from Minnesota for yielding. Madam Speaker, I rise to object to this whole process. What we are doing here today, this is an example of the misplaced priorities of this Democrat majority. Let's start…