It really is hard to imagine what the people of Louisiana are going through without seeing it for yourself.
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...
The Stafford Act is entirely insufficient to respond to this disaster.
But let's be clear. I don't want you to pull the Governor and his staff into this thing. This is not their decision. Thi...
We need to do the Comite River diversion program. We need to erase the backlog of $724 million in emergency dollars thro...
We have to get a supplemental done. Without a supplemental, the government will never have the ability to set up a progr...
We're going to donate in charity and volunteer our way out of the fourth most costly disaster in the United States--floo...
I don't think that can work that way.
I just want us to be fair and try to work in a way to just get people what we can give them right now.
If our first thought is always that America's citizens are looking for a way to beat the system, then we're never going ...
I did call Congressman Graves. We did get water.
Louisiana's housing need is projected to exceed $1.2 billion alone, with an outlook of $3 billion in economic loss.
To put the truly historic nature of this flood into perspective, south Louisiana received more rain in 48 hours than the...
Louisiana will move forward. The resilient spirit of our people will never cease to amaze me.
If you can save money--if you can save money, provide a more stable, preferable environment for the law enforcement comm...
So homes will be not only--have they been not only underwater, now they're going to be underwater and people walking awa...
I will tell you it's the fastest it's ever been done, and by a long shot.
