Mary Landrieu actually said...

But the law does say very clearly here that it has to be in plain English.

We have to acknowledge we have built infrastructure we own. It is not going to go away anytime soon.

The Senators did not believe that the bill needed to be offset. We thought this was an emergency and we voted that way.

And let me put up my favorite map again, and ask FEMA, would you please produce a map for Alaska that looks just like this, and for Hawaii?