04/28/2009
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"There is no way to argue that we can ease up on Louisiana and Mississippi a little bit; because we have been at this for a long time."
"This is a structural problem. Your mandate is to keep Louisiana, to keep Mississippi, from getting too much money."
"We cannot sit by and really hope that outsized disasters such as Hurricane Katrina and 9/11 will never occur again."
"What did we learn from Hurricane Katrina, as well as from other disasters in the United States and around the world?"