Thank you. And I want to associate myself with the remarks of Senator McCaskill and thank her for her leadership.
Dodd-Frank had not ended too big to fail.
I think it is very helpful, and I think it moves the debate significantly.
30 percent seems like a huge margin when they assume absolutely none of the risk.
I have to believe that the folks not buying insurance tend to have lower risk.
I felt like it was the most fair thing to direct 80 percent of that penalty back to the Gulf where the accident happened...
the RESTORE Act was a big win, dedicating 80 percent of the Clean Water Act's civil penalties paid by the responsible pa...
As you know, no one felt the effects of the Deepwater Horizon disaster more than the citizens of Louisiana.
As a leading Republican conferee on the highway bill, I continued to make the enactment, the full, final passage and ena...
Moving forward, we must also be sure that the ecosystem projects ultimately selected are steps toward the comprehensive,...
It has been my number one issue since being elected to the Senate to advocate on behalf of coastal restoration.
This plan has been signed off on not by one Governor but by six. Republicans, Democrats, Members of Congress stand behin...
The law is clear. We debated the issue of pot 2. That money was expressly and solely directed to ecosystem restoration. ...
It is America's wetlands. It is not just Louisiana, as we contribute hugely to the economic strength of this entire Nati...
Of course, it was Senator Boxer's legislation, the Clean Water Act, that assesses a strong penalty for violators that po...
The RESTORE Act was meant to implement quickly for the Gulf Coast to jump start restoration efforts.
It is both an environmental priority and an economic priority, and it is absolutely essential that we are successful.
I led the effort to secure the only known or identifiable source of revenue that could come back to the state to help us...
