Recently, two teams in my district won football State championships. In Class 2A, the Evangel Eagles, led by Coach John Bachman, Sr., defeated John Curtis High School. David Dee Duron completed an 8-yard touchdown pass in the third quarter…

I want to thank the gentleman from Texas for yielding and for hosting this hour, because it is so important right now. As the American people are watching what is going on here in Washington, most people are saying they don't want a…

Would you consider it the right policy to mandate that now with regard to every entity pharmaceutical or other contaminant out there, to mandate testing and to mandate zero tolerance for all of those things based on the knowledge and the…

I just want to thank all of our witnesses for coming and being part of this very important discussion.

Today the Senate Environment and Public Works Subcommittee on Transportation Safety, Infrastructure Security, and Water Quality will focus on pharmaceuticals in our nation's waters.

I just wanted to very briefly followup on two points.

It seems to me that before we test, we have to know what the significance of the test result is going to be, what it means to human health or doesn't mean to human health.

I particularly want to thank this Chair and Senator Kerry and the Members of this Committee who have stepped forward to put an extraordinary amendment on the CJS bill.

We have to have a system where their families are moved to a safe place days before the storm.

I believe as a Member of this Committee that the Small Business Administration is very well poised through existing programs that we have as well as new things that our Committee should explore.

Today, I introduced a comprehensive legislative package called the 'Louisiana Katrina Reconstruction Act' that will help rebuild Louisiana's economy and our infrastructure.

I want to acknowledge our Chairperson here and how, from the very first days of this catastrophe, the leadership of this Committee, along with Senator Kerry, has been focused on exactly what the Chairman said.

This was the highest priority for businesses in my home state of Louisiana.

As Senator Kerry said, there are over 200,000 small businesses and counting that have been directly affected.

I thank the Chair for holding this hearing on the devastation that Hurricane Katrina has brought on my home state of Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama.

I raise that, Madam Chair, not out of any criticism but just to say how huge this is and how much faster we have to go.

We are proposing a $1,000 tax credit for each employee a small business puts back to work in the disaster area.

We are proposing a relocation tax credit to help offset the huge cost many businesses have incurred in relocating.