Mary Landrieu said...

I led the effort to secure the only known or identifiable source of revenue that could come back to the state to help us...

I felt like it was the most fair thing to direct 80 percent of that penalty back to the Gulf where the accident happened...

The Senators did not believe that the bill needed to be offset. We thought this was an emergency and we voted that way.

I urge the Department of Commerce to read our plan and to start funding some of these important projects that were antic...