Phil Gingrey: “Over the Labor Day weekend, I had the opportunity to go to Baton Rouge not as a Member of Congress but as a physician…”

“Over the Labor Day weekend, I had the opportunity to go to Baton Rouge not as a Member of Congress but as a physician and to work in the River Center where the evacuees, over 5,000, so many of them were there, and to help provide basic health care needs. What I saw in Louisiana was the best of human nature: a level of confusion, of course, and some disorganization, but people pulling together and trying to do the best they could in a difficult situation. Mr. Speaker, I would ask my colleagues on both sides of the aisle at a time like this, probably the greatest tragedy this Nation has ever seen, to pull together, avoid the temptation to get into a finger- pointing, blaming situation, and let us see as a result of this the best of the human nature of this Congress. ____________________”