Yesterday I had the opportunity to come and update the House on the flooding conditions in the State of Louisiana. I talked about how this is, potentially, the fourth most costly flood disaster in U.S. history. Louisiana received 31 inches…

The Stafford Act is entirely insufficient to respond to this disaster.

We're going to donate in charity and volunteer our way out of the fourth most costly disaster in the United States--flood disaster in United States history.

I did call Congressman Graves. We did get water.

We have to get a supplemental done. Without a supplemental, the government will never have the ability to set up a program to match the unmet need that people are going to have.

We need to do the Comite River diversion program. We need to erase the backlog of $724 million in emergency dollars through the Department of Transportation.

What do we tell those people? Is the Stafford Act sufficient to respond to this disaster?

And, most essentially, we need that $2 billion Community Development Block Grant program so that we can try to go in and convince these people that the right thing to do is to stay in their communities.

But let's be clear. I don't want you to pull the Governor and his staff into this thing. This is not their decision. This decision is FEMA's decision.

This is an entirely insufficient situation.

What we're saying is we want to mitigate in a very smart way, which is, if we do our Comite project and other things, we will manage the water that we receive so that even a thousand-year storm we can survive.

I think it's ridiculous. This is why people get so frustrated and why there are T-shirts that use an alternative acronym for 'FEMA' on Bourbon Street.

I just want us to be fair and try to work in a way to just get people what we can give them right now.

So homes will be not only--have they been not only underwater, now they're going to be underwater and people walking away and their jobs.

We got together and rescued our own people. We did it.

On rollcall No. 481, I was detained discussing flood recovery efforts in Louisiana. Had I been present, I would have voted ``yes.''

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I think it will. I think it needs to until we get a better handle of exactly what the threat is.

This is not our community. This is not how we respond, and learning that the shooter was actually from Missouri confirms that.

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