Landrieu highlights the complexity of the current budget situation.
07/22/2013
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The RESTORE Act was meant to implement quickly for the Gulf Coast to jump start restoration efforts.
The law is clear. We debated the issue of pot 2. That money was expressly and solely directed to ecosystem restoration. ...
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 both an environmental priority and an economic priority, and it is absolutely essential that we are successful.