We need a more consistent, more robust funding mechanism for building our levees, securing our pump stations, flood prot...
That hard-fought effort helped ensure adequate appropriations to the FEMA Disaster Relief Fund.
We need as a Nation to plant our flag in Grand Isle, Louisiana, because if we do not do that, the tides and waves of the...
COE has agreed--Senator Vitter and I both asked, and he initiated it, and I supported his request--for an independent re...
Well, we are going to look into how the State did their case management and hear from the parish presidents whether that...
This study has been in your budget for 40 years, and it has not progressed one iota.
This is an unworkable--if it was not so sad it would be a laughable budget, but it is nothing to laugh about.
I might be able to speak for other people in the country that would feel the same way.
Because the mouth of the Mississippi River is obviously not important to the country in any way, so that is no benefit t...
It is time to take action and move the West Shore--Lake Pontchartrain Hurricane Protection Project forward.
It is not just a State or a local issue, as has already been discussed. It is a national issue.
we have to take a moment to educate them on the importance of south Louisiana to the Nation.
This decision by General Walsh is not supported by the data from the summit.
the more we can talk with one voice and the more we can work in a bipartisan manner, the better we are going to be.
What we are operating under now is just not practical. And so we are going to have to have some serious changes there.
I really hope COE is listening to that final explanation, or we are going to be sitting here a couple of years from now ...
the State of Louisiana has almost $500 million of unobligated funds.
the need to speak with a consistent voice, I think is very important.
