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.
We've got to work to get it right.
If you can save money--if you can save money, provide a more stable, preferable environment for the law enforcement comm...
What we're saying is we want to mitigate in a very smart way, which is, if we do our Comite project and other things, we...
But then we've got to make sure that our response from Washington is targeted on responding to this storm in the most ef...
And, most essentially, we need that $2 billion Community Development Block Grant program so that we can try to go in and...
It is absolutely unacceptable to think that we're going to find a way to charity ourselves out of this thing.
There is this unbelievable perception out there that the cost of inaction is free.
I think it's ridiculous. This is why people get so frustrated and why there are T-shirts that use an alternative acronym...
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.
