Mary Landrieu said...

the reason we tend to want not to build in velocity zones is because that is the most vulnerable area to any type of flooding.

Landrieu emphasizes the risks of building in flood-prone areas.

07/22/2014

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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.

The RESTORE Act was meant to implement quickly for the Gulf Coast to jump start restoration efforts.

I was actually shocked when the floodplain managers opposed our efforts to reform Biggert-Waters.

The law is clear. We debated the issue of pot 2. That money was expressly and solely directed to ecosystem restoration. ...