"Nothing is going to be done unless we keep our eye on the ball."
"These storms showed why we must invest in restoring Louisiana's natural hurricane protection system, the wetlands."
"We have learned a great deal over the past few years about why the New Orleans Hurricane Protection System failed."
"Thank you so much. Because I think it is important."
"I found in my own State, when I work on major flood control projects, one of the problems is we have great people and then you look over your shoulder, they have the whole history and they are gone."
"I am just asking you, why did you pick Option 1 and, in the face of all the disagreement, it seems to me from the two Senators here and, I do not know about the congressional delegation, but it looks ..."
"There was a need to do that. Congress directed the Corps to complete a study of how to provide Category 5 hurricane protection that includes but structural elements and wetlands restoration."
"Do you know how long it takes us to make a case to our colleagues that we need to take action?"
"These deadlines that are asked of you are not just pulled out of the air. There are reasons for it."
"We cannot wait until another disaster strikes."
"It does not make any sense, it seems to me, to choose an option that is like $1 billion instead of $2 billion, I am just throwing a number out, when you could spend $1 billion and have $40 billion wor..."
"Yes. Absolutely. Put it in the record."