Mary Landrieu actually said...

"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."

"If we don't really understand this mitigation, sort of one for one, like if you take an acre of wetlands, you have to replace it, I'm all for that."