"Of course, it was Senator Boxer's legislation, the Clean Water Act, that assesses a strong penalty for violators that pollute our rivers, our streams, and our oceans."
"It has been my number one issue since being elected to the Senate to advocate on behalf of coastal restoration."
"The coast of Louisiana is the largest section of land in America that is being eroded."
"Our committee meets this morning to consider the nomination of Dr. Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall, to be Deputy Secretary of Energy."
"And let me put up my favorite map again, and ask FEMA, would you please produce a map for Alaska that looks just like this, and for Hawaii?"
"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."
"This is not just a Louisiana, Mississippi, coastal issue. The 450 counties that are most threatened produce 50 percent of the GDP of this Nation."
"this fee is going to drive them out."
"But the law does say very clearly here that it has to be in plain English."
"We have to acknowledge we have built infrastructure we own. It is not going to go away anytime soon."