There must be a way to marry those two.
the approach that you and Senator Nelson are working on, it is extraordinary, it is exactly what needs to happen
Everyone wants to learn the lessons of Katrina. Everyone wants to strengthen engineering and design guidelines in an app...
Louisiana is the buffer for Arkansas in regard to hurricane storm surge.
We have lost approximately 1,900 square miles of those wetlands, which is equivalent to Senator Whitehouse's entire Stat...
I appreciate you having this hearing on America's energy security, and specifically to look at an assessment of our reso...
the President will go around saying that production has never been higher, and yet you actually look at some of his poli...
the EPA might try to give the impression that there are no federal regulations and they need to step in
the States have the ability to do that much better and have a great track record
we surely don't want to see the federal government come in and try to slow that down
Diversity adds something to this country, and we should never forget it.
What I don't want people to take away from this hearing is that all of a sudden we forgot about the tired and the poor.
I think it has to be a comprehensive approach, or we will never get to the hard part.
I think it is a commonsense nonstarter to even have that discussion if half of the Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund is bein...
How can we double exports when I can't load what we have today?
the funds are, frankly, going to make it look like we have a stockpile of $6 billion somewhere, which, as Senator Vitter...
Well, again, this is a big fiction, and I think the first important part of this conversation is to get beyond the ficti...
lower Mississippi River, biggest waterway in the Country, one of the biggest in the world, reduced in some cases to one-...