Mary Landrieu actually said...

"It is only going to be a matter of time until a major storm hits Florida or some catastrophic flooding occurs in California."

"$40 billion worth of damage caused by the failure of this system."

"With the canals closed under this plan and a storm sitting over the city dropping heavy rainfall, Orleans and Jefferson, which is about 1 million people roughly, close to 1 million people, are at risk..."

"What similarities do you see and what are the one of two things that you think we could really appreciate from the Dutch model?"