"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"This is not Louisiana. This is not Baton Rouge. What you saw today, number two, we cannot, we should not let this shooter dictate what happens here and how we respond and proliferating hate."
"Why in the world would we want to bring the Federal Government and their record of success into an area that actually has an excellent record of managing resources for energy development, commercial a..."
"As Congressman Duncan mentioned, the largest dead zone in North America is off the coast of Louisiana."
"The Federal Government, through the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers--their actions in regard to the management of the river system in south Louisiana has largely resulted in the loss of about 1,900 squar..."
"The Federal Government is causing the problems, from an economic and from an environmental perspective."