We have to signal seriousness in this by making sure some of the hard decisions that are made under our watch today, that they are not someone else's in the future.

The President's proposal would align the solvency dates of the retirement and disability program to 2033; is that correct?

I don't know if we can ever figure out how to solve the shortfall, but you all are here to help.

Social Security does face a challenge, but it's a manageable one, one I look forward to addressing on a bipartisan basis.

So if I have this right, over the next five years, the President wants to take 330 billion from the retirement program that's going broke and give it to the disability program, which will be broke next year if we don't do anything.

People need more electricity, and then you come out with a rule that other agencies said were going to have devastating impacts, much worse than you anticipated, and those things happen, and then you say, well, yes, it happened, but maybe…

I am incredibly, I cannot put enough hyperbole in front of this, opposed to the Department's budget proposal to deprive the Gulf Coast states of the revenue promised under the Gulf of Mexico Security Act.

They are disappointed by the budget's proposed version of critically needed and currently dedicated funding for coastal Louisiana in the Mississippi River delta.

Does President Obama hate Louisiana?

The Obama Administration's goal to take this away reminds me of a quote from Joseph Heller, 'Mankind is resilient. The atrocities that horrified us a week ago become acceptable tomorrow.'

I'm hoping one of the ways we change that attitude and even the playing field, at least here in Louisiana, is when in the next few years those folks with the right skills training at 21 step into a job at $55,000, and in five years they're…

we will be unable to meet those workforce demands.

our current system of higher education really, in my opinion, stifles innovation in a lot of cases.

I would say a more modest proposal and one that Senator Vitter referenced earlier is greater access to financial aid.

Thank you very much, David.

we can go further.

we need to fix that, and we need to give these folks the training they need.

we need to give our young people the education, the training, and the skill sets they need to benefit from good jobs.