Mary Landrieu actually said...

"I am going to really be pushing this subcommittee, the whole Committee on Appropriations, the Committee on Banking, and the Congress to get complete and accurate flood maps done before we engage in tr..."

"The Senators did not believe that the bill needed to be offset. We thought this was an emergency and we voted that way."

"We have to acknowledge we have built infrastructure we own. It is not going to go away anytime soon."

"We have to protect those investments. But we also have to make sure that as we invest in the future, as we rebuild from disasters, we are making investments for future risk, not for old data."