And sometimes government gets in the way of that.
I want to thank you for your swift response and for your many visits you have made to our State as well.
It wouldn't have been possible, though, without your help and the President's help and certainly the contractors.
I would argue that a grant and a loan are two very different instruments that do not duplicate one another.
To date, the Subcommittee has provided approximately $1.7 billion to the State of Louisiana and community development, b...
We do need to identify these problems because it certainly is going to continue to be problematic to other disaster vict...
I want to commend you for that. That is a huge deal.
When you take a step back and look, since 1980 we have had somewhere around 220, 230 disasters in this country that have...
You have a servant's heart, and we know that.
And that is really what community is all about.
If this is an unsustainable area, why are we proposing that dollars be extracted from this area and sent to other places...
If we're replacing high sulfur, highly viscous Venezuelan crude as an energy source with, I would prefer natural gas fro...
We have lost 2,000 square miles of our coast--2,000 square miles.
The Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation (CDM) program is a key component of the Department of Homeland Security's (DHS...
I think that it has the potential to make things go more quickly with one caveat which is it would have to free the Stat...
We couldn't agree more that it is not going fast enough, and that is true in Houston and throughout the whole region.
As a Louisianan, I am very grateful that the budget doesn't call for an outright elimination of GOMESA. But it does thre...
I think it is taking advantage of projects where you have lots of potential partners and parties.