The other problem with budgeting, Senator Brown, if I might say, in advance is sometimes events happen that no matter how well you planned just absolutely blow the roof off of any estimates and that is what happened in Katrina.
Landrieu discusses the unpredictability of disaster costs, referencing Hurricane Katrina.
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The Senators did not believe that the bill needed to be offset. We thought this was an emergency and we voted that way.
it is not a coastal issue. It is not only a coastal issue. It is an interior issue. It is a national issue.
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