Mary Landrieu: “If Hurricane Katrina taught us anything, we must coordinate and manage our outer hurricane protection with the interior…”

I generally support the goals of the enhancements to the FAST Act, and do believe, as Senator McCaskill said, that having--and both of you--a permanent director, a budget, a staff to give some strength to what you all are trying to do.

That MOU would not have been possible without Alex and without the Federal push coming down to tell them, 'You must work together,' and maybe we need stronger.

Thank you for continuing your focus on this, because the work is not done, and there are billions and billions of dollars of projects that could be built.

If this process is not fixed or focused or made better, it would really be not worth speaking about.