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.
the RESTORE Act, in which the delegation came together--Senator Vitter, Senator Landrieu, and the congressional delegati...
the Governor did not help in any way to put money into this fund when I asked him for his help.
It is the wrong way to go.
My colleague, Senator Vitter, has written to the President in support of that request.
COE has agreed--Senator Vitter and I both asked, and he initiated it, and I supported his request--for an independent re...
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...
That hard-fought effort helped ensure adequate appropriations to the FEMA Disaster Relief Fund.
We need a more consistent, more robust funding mechanism for building our levees, securing our pump stations, flood prot...
And for the first time in our Nation's history, we will receive when the BP penalty is paid anywhere from $5 billion to ...
