Charlie Melancon: “your leadership in helping our State and its people recover has been unmatched.”

Our culture is threatened. Our coastal economy is threatened. And everything that I know and love is at risk.

in the Water Resource Development Act of 2000, Congress authorized a project for hurricane protection known as Morganza to the Gulf. This contingent authorization would protect over 200,000 people in their homes, but the contingent…

We need assistance in trying to look at a reauthorization or reforming so that there is a catastrophic event clause.

I am here to speak on an issue of paramount importance to my constituents in south Louisiana and I think the entire Nation. Outer Continental Shelf production and coastal impact assistance are very important. Louisiana is uniquely…