Political Quotes

“Mr. President, I rise today to highlight the importance and urgent need of the Water Resources Development Act of 2016 and the urgent need to bring it to the Senate floor and to act and pass it in the Senate. Unfortunately, there are many events, floods, and disasters around the country in recent times that highlight the need for this. The most recent--even more unfortunately, from my point of view--is in South Louisiana--the devastating thousand-year flooding in greater Baton Rouge and parts of Acadiana. WRDA 2016 addresses many of the needs that events like this highlight. It builds on the necessary commonsense reforms we made in 2014. It reinforces why Congress should be passing these water resource bills every 2 years. This is one of the reasons why WRDA has come out of both Senate and House committees with overwhelming bipartisan support. We can't continue to rebuild neighborhoods and cities time and again after disasters. We have to become more proactive in protecting life and property, more diligent in our oversight of the Corps of Engineers to ensure that projects are delivered on time, as well as more focused on creating real paying jobs that help grow our economy with the important work contained in these bills. Some of the highlights of WRDA 2016 that particularly impact Louisiana are as follows: First of all, let's go to the disaster area with this devastating flooding.…”