If we do not change this--20,000 just 8 years ago to 7,000--we will be down to zero.

The Coast Guard is a branch of our Armed Forces.

It's the people of Louisiana's favorite Federal agency because we depend on them literally morning, noon, and night for so much of the work that we do in our state.

Keeping them to the one they are born into, keeping that family together.

As Chair of Homeland Security Appropriations and as senior Senator from Louisiana, I became particularly impressed with this nominee's ability, his leadership ability, in the aftermath of the oil spill which was about 4 years ago.

the basis of society is family. Children belong in families. Families belong together.

I cannot find the word 'family' in, on any one of these pages.

I came to the floor today with the intention of asking unanimous consent to pass H.R. 3521, which we have heard a lot about on the floor lately between Senator Vitter and Senator Sanders. This bill would authorize the construction of 27…

What is causing the delay in Department of Justice's review of the New Orleans Police Department's policies?

I would like to announce for the information of the Senate and the public that the oversight hearing scheduled before the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources will now be held before the Subcommittee on Water and Power. The…

We really want to focus on the safety of the men and women in uniform doing their job to keep order in the prison and in our country.

Thank you, Attorney General Holder, for your service. And thank you, Madam Chair, for your leadership.

We need to change our policies, we need to provide additional resources.

The charter community, which is $1 billion with 1 million kids on the waiting list, is turning around, in our State, the lowest performing schools, taking them from the lowest to the highest. It is a model that works. It has been proven…

I am a strong supporter of high-performing public schools.

The country should know. Because it is billions and billions and billions and billions of dollars, and we are, like, throwing nickels and dimes at it.

I mean, there is no question about that.

I don't agree with that, but we will look into it.

Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. And let me begin by thanking you for your extraordinary leadership all these years on this committee.

I have been, along with many Members of Congress, both Democrats and Republicans, a strong champion for charter schools.

the budget that we are reviewing today with the Army Corps of Engineers, this amount represents the smallest percentage of the Federal budget in more than 200-year history of the Army Corps.

It is a 17-percent decrease from last year's budget. It is woefully inadequate.

CMS recently implemented a final rule that changed payments for speech generating devices (SGDs) so that Medicare beneficiaries no longer have the option to purchase them, but instead must rent them.

I have been very supportive of the Charter Schools Program (CSP), and thus was disappointed that the administration level-funded the Charter Schools Program in its fiscal year 2015 budget.

Not what you can do, but what the country needs. It is two different things.