Mary Landrieu actually said...

"I have got 400,000 people in Louisiana, 500 million across the country affected by this."

"I am committed to doing what I can to see that your Department has the resources that it needs to do the job that we have asked you to do."

"I noted in the President's budget the $400 million in Pre-Disaster Mitigation Grants was included not as a part of the base budget because of restrictions, but as part of the aspirational budget."

"I appreciate that because if people cannot afford to be in the program, then you will not have a program, and the debt will increase, and the program will collapse."