She did start the cycle. I mean, you've got to give her credit. She has some guts. I mean, she took on an incumbent senator in Alaska.

But I do think that we ought to pause. And after -- the federal government has put some real skin in the game here. They have rebuilt some things here. Some of it has gone well.

46 percent of Republicans identify themselves with the Tea Party.

Oh, yes. I mean, I hope she does.

We have had unbelievable political reform here. We have gone down from seven assessors to one. We have reformed and streamlined the levee boards.

The federal government has put some real skin in the game here. I mean, they've rebuilt some -- some things here. Some of it has gone well.

There's nobody more compelling than she is in politics.

Most of the great stuff that's happened here has been because the electorate came back, the citizens came back and thought, ok, you know, we really do get the city we deserve.

The economic threat continues worse than ever because of this moratorium.

if the formal and de facto moratoria continue for six months or more, what revenue impact will your jurisdiction and your local school systems see, and what service cuts will that lead to?

I don't know, John. But I can tell you there's not a single person that I've run across in Louisiana that believes that figure.

If this moratorium continues even a few more months, we will lose more jobs because of it than we will lose from the oil itself.

This thing is not going away. We're not going to turn the page. We're going to stay until the last drop of oil is out of the Gulf of Mexico. I promise you that.

I hope that -- that this administration is ready to really put some pressure on BP to get the LSU and the Tulane people out in the marshes, measuring this stuff.

We are still waiting to hear the justification. The people of Louisiana are still waiting to hear the justification.

Now, in this context, it just happened yesterday, but do you have any comments or reaction to this move by the administration, at least in deepwater, possibly broader, to get rid of this NEPA categorical exclusion?

What percentage of those ports' activity is directly related to offshore oil and gas?

What I am scared to death about is that for energy companies and related industries, all of a sudden, the political risk in the United States of America is higher, is worse, is more threatening than it is in West Africa or a lot of other…