06/26/2013
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"I have to look for a catastrophe to put a supplemental on there to get funding."
"lower Mississippi River, biggest waterway in the Country, one of the biggest in the world, reduced in some cases to one-way traffic."
"Well, again, this is a big fiction, and I think the first important part of this conversation is to get beyond the fiction."
"the funds are, frankly, going to make it look like we have a stockpile of $6 billion somewhere, which, as Senator Vitter points out, is illusory."