I don't know what I am going to do, but I am going to use all the power that I can to stop any funding for any programs as long as the money is coming off the coast of Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas.
Landrieu expresses frustration over funding for Gulf States amidst disaster recovery.
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We have to make decisions about where we build going forward. This is not a sustainable risk we can continue to do with no change.
This is not just a Louisiana, Mississippi, coastal issue. The 450 counties that are most threatened produce 50 percent of the GDP of this Nation.
We also removed the property sales trigger, which had frozen real estate markets and threatened to rob many middle-class families.
Thank you, Administrator Fugate, for testifying this afternoon. You have one tough job, to implement this program, which is important to the whole Nation.
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