I think it's just critical, which brings me to my questions about Haiti.

We believe it is extremely cost effective and it is helping us train our first responders.

Are you confident that the money that is in the President's budget request, which is I think $1.95 billion for fiscal year 2011, and the additional $5.1 billion in supplemental will cover the outstanding or anticipated request from not…

The FRC project is critical to replacing the Coast Guard's fleet of 110-foot Island Class patrol boats.

Without this chairman, I am not sure where we would be.

I am concerned however with the proposed cuts to the National Domestic Preparedness Consortium, the Emergency Operations Centers and the incorporation of the Metropolitan Medical Response System (MMRS) into the UASI program.

If you just took 50 percent of the estimated orphans, that would be roughly 70 million children.

on behalf of myself and my colleagues Senator Lincoln, Senator Chambliss, Senator Shaheen, Senator Murkowski, Senator Barrasso and Senator Byrd, I rise today to submit a resolution in support of the goals and ideals of National Guard Youth…

I was pleased to see increases for the State Homeland Security Grant Program, Urban Area Security Initiative, and FEMA management and operations.

I specifically appreciate your partnership with Secretary Gates to marry the hard power of our military with the smart power of our diplomacy over the long run.

We believe, because of your quick work with Secretary Clinton, that all of those adoptions will be processed within the next 30 days.

The Sentinel Class Fast Response Cutters (FRCs) will provide the Coast Guard with a new generation of patrol boats.

This agency should operate in the most transparent, accountable way possible.

I am pleased today to be introducing the Small Business Contracting Improvements Act of 2010, legislation designed to protect the interests of small businesses and boost their opportunities in the Federal marketplace. As Chair of the…

Since 1999, and before, the State of Louisiana--and the occupant of the chair was a Governor, so she knows-- paid approximately 30 percent of our Medicaid dollars and the Federal Government picked up about 70. We are in the lower one-third…

I am on the floor to speak about a different subject, one that is very important to the State of Louisiana and the people of our State--an issue that has been mischaracterized for months now in all sorts of venues--and I thought taking an…

I come to the floor today to speak on an issue that is of great importance to my home State of Louisiana: disaster recovery from Hurricanes Katrina and Rita of 2005 and Hurricanes Gustav and Ike of 2008. Almost 5 years after these first…

I hope that our effort is all about seeing the words 'made in America.'

The Democrats calling it the Louisiana Watergate.

It's still just really not clear. I don't think there's anybody who believes that the result was going to be flattering to Senator Landrieu.

She said it's very unusual, somewhat unsettling for her and her staff. She said she is interested as anybody else about learning their motives and purpose.

I came to the floor this morning in morning business to talk about a different subject, and one that is quite troubling to Americans as we watch the unfolding horror in Haiti. As we stand ready and willing to do everything we can, not only…

It is my privilege to introduce two outstanding attorneys in the State of Louisiana to be Federal judges.

this area could host a small modular nuclear facility with generated electricity for the Air Force Base

These primary advantages: affordability, speed of construction, and flexibility may indicate that for these initial years of what I hope will be a true 'nuclear renaissance', we may want to think smaller instead of larger--and build more…