Mary Landrieu actually said...

"I say we cannot afford not to make them."

"This budget that we have in front of us... simply does not have enough money to maintain or invest or build the structures that we have to to build an economy that lasts."

"If there was ever an example of what's going to happen, when the levees broke in New Orleans... is there any other case study that needs to be presented?"

"We also have to be sensitive to the taxpayers that are picking up this tab."