It was once said that a politician worries about the next election, but a statesman worries about the next generation.

I thank the gentlewoman from Florida. I rise today in support of the amendment from my colleague from Louisiana (Mr. Scalise). I'd like to just remind the Chair that it was a little less than 2 years ago that the Deepwater Horizon occurred…

I would just simply close by thanking the gentleman and by saying that what the amendment does is really allow the gulf coast communities to invest in their own futures while continuing to invest in the energy future of America. Mr. Chair…

What this amendment simply does is it allows those Gulf Coast States to invest their oil and gas into their States in terms of coastal restoration. I would tell you, Mr. Chairman, that Louisiana, since 1950, has contributed over $160…

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page 952, beginning on line 17, strike ``Federal program'' and insert ``Federal program, except in the case…

I thank the gentleman from Louisiana. Mr. Chairman, I have an understanding different from my good friend and colleague from Massachusetts. He is absolutely right when he says the resources are everyone's. The resources are everyone's. But…

Let's go back to the grant program, and then in Louisiana, especially in south Louisiana, with the largest port system probably in the world when you combine Port of South Louisiana and the Port of New Orleans and the Port of Plaquemines.

However, subsequent rules were promulgated where many of the municipalities, the school boards, and other agencies are not getting loan forgiveness from those disaster loans from Katrina.

I am not as confident as the Chairwoman, especially being in the minority and being a new member that they are going to keep the machine open for me.

Can you at least advocate on our behalf that the commitment was made, people made decisions based on it, and it would be the right thing to do to live up to the commitment to waive the repayment of those disaster loans?

the right thing to do is to honor that commitment to waive the repayment of those disaster loans.

But we can't have zero tolerance with the company.

I see no difference in either.

The unfortunate incidents of today remind me of that song I learned from Sesame Street which is, One of these kids is doing his own thing. The truth of the matter is we need adults today. If you look at the Republican Senators, they stood…

We have to worry about the cyber attacks. We also have to worry about our hardened criminals using technology to find our children and so forth.

We ought not make a profit, and we ought not let government grow on the backs of people who just went through a disaster.

I missed rollcall vote number 857. Had I been present, I would have voted ``yes'' on rollcall vote number 857, adoption of the Conference Report on H.R. 2112--the Agriculture, Rural Development, Food & Drug Administration and Related…

My question is more on how the elected Member of Congress can play an effective role in alerting the public about how to best prepare for a likely emergency.

Our region has the best potential, though, for job growth, just because of the capacity that we have in manufacturing.

Do you see the possibility of the city of Detroit being a site for testing and evaluating homeland security technology?

I want to protect them the best I can.

My concern is that many metro Detroiters are at risk of being poisoned if a terrorist decides to dump a bunch of biological agents in that drinking water system.

How can the Department of Homeland Security best judge an urban area's risk of an attack based on the assessments that it uses now?

I represent New Orleans, Louisiana, which in the aftermath of Katrina the Government response was very, very poor in terms of getting resources there quickly unified command and all of those things.

In terms of risk assessment or probability of where a device or products or ingredients would come from, where does ports or seawater, where does that rank in terms of the likelihood of being used to get one of these devices into the…