Mary Landrieu actually said...

"And I agree with the Senator that we have to think big, but we're going to need a bigger budget to do that."

"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."

"Well, Madam Chair, I'm with you 1,000 percent. I serve on the Appropriations Committee, obviously, I'm on the subcommittee, but I can honestly say, of all the committees I serve on, there is no budget..."

"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."