Mary Landrieu actually said...

"We are losing 25 to 35 square miles of wetlands per year--about a football field an hour--which places millions of lives and critical national resources at alarming risk."

"I'm going to write a letter to the President, and ask you all to sign it, and ask him to adjust his budget."

"I say we cannot afford not to make them."

"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."