Mary Landrieu said...

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

If this process is not fixed or focused or made better, it would really be not worth speaking about.

It is both an environmental priority and an economic priority, and it is absolutely essential that we are successful.

This is not just a Louisiana, Mississippi, coastal issue. The 450 counties that are most threatened produce 50 percent o...