Mary Landrieu

Senator Mary Landrieu is a tireless advocate for small businesses.

It is a bipartisan bill. It is the kind of bill that builds on the progress that Mary Landrieu and others have been making on these storm recovery efforts.

The combination of updated flood maps and the phaseout of premium subsidies for the National Flood Insurance Program threatens to force victims out of their homes.

The work of Senators Schumer, Menendez, and Gillibrand was absolutely essential to this recovery effort.

We must do that. When FEMA has completed this study, we can then look at it, and Congress can make a plan for how to make the rates affordable.

We should not have premium increases until that affordability study is done.

Every dollar that we invest to strengthen our homes, businesses, and infrastructure saves $4 in potential recovery costs down the line.

They know that their government will be there for them and helping them to recover.

We need to do a better job of that.

We managed to even get a little bit of money out of the bill for Louisiana.

The reality is that for thousands of people in New Jersey, recovery is an around-the-clock effort.

I thank my colleagues who led this effort on this nondiscrimination bill, which is historic, and I am pleased we had a bipartisan vote to make America more accepting and a just place. It is a work-in-progress, and I am very pleased we…

This is something that we should be able to take care of without a second thought.

I wanted to be here to give my support to the concept of this legislation and to acknowledge how important it is.

It's time we act to approve the agreement and provide the Interior Department the necessary authorities to implement it.

I thank the Senator for yielding for a question. I appreciate his leadership as an appropriator. Senator Mikulski was on the floor earlier today, the leader of our committee and the debate about how much to spend and what we should spend…

I have heard from a ton of constituents who had their flood insurance claim denied or reduced.

What I would like to know is what FEMA is doing to reach out to NACo and to the mayors and to the national counties?

This is not a Louisiana issue. This is not a gulf coast issue. This is not a coastal issue. This is a national issue.

We are going to take that rug out right from underneath them. This is the triple whammy.

One, if Biggert-Waters and the bill was prospective, I think the country could deal with this in a better way.

There has got to be some overriding law in the Constitution of the United States that says you cannot implement a law if you cannot implement it.

I want to see who is really willing to help these property owners.

Compassion and common sense is what we are asking for. And it affects millions of homeowners and businesses.

Middle-income families, even some at the high end of the middle class, are going to have a hard time accepting the new rules.