Garret Graves actually said...

"Our communities, both in Terrebonne and Lafourche Parishes voted to tax themselves to begin building the system."

"We have to have the tools, we have to have the processes in place that recognize the urgency of the challenges that we are facing today."

"We cannot allow for this slow and expensive process to continue to thwart our efforts to become the more resilient Nation that we should be."

"The status quo what we have done historically for decades is absolutely inappropriate, it doesn't properly prioritize."