Mary Landrieu actually said...

"This requires advanced coordination and communication to save lives and property and to recover and rebuild smartly and quickly."

"It makes no sense to cut funding from the agencies that must prepare for and respond to future disasters, to use that money to pay for the cost of past disasters."

"It is more important than ever to allocate dollars carefully and wisely."

"it would be very troublesome and very disappointing to have spent the money that we are investing in communications systems that do not talk to each other"