On the recordSeptember 8, 2016
I join with Congressman Graves in requesting $125 million in funding for the Corps of Engineers...
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Edwards emphasizes the need for funding to protect Louisiana from future disasters.
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I am here today to urge the Congress and the Administration to do two things.
We are very unfortunately in a position that we had hoped that we had pray that we`ve worked very hard to avoid. But quite simply, the Delta variant is an absolute game changer, superimposed as it is in Louisiana on a state that is not sufficiently vaccinated.
We're having to do emergency work with the state and the parishes, but also working with the Corps of Engineers.
Louisiana's governor saying he expects it to rise quote considerably.