The intent of the funding included incorporation of the 34 miles of existing small public and private back levees...

It does not make any sense.

It is not fair to ask the citizens of Louisiana to bear the entire cost or a significant cost for the draining of the entire continent.

This community is very interested in that study.

Thankfully, Senator Landrieu and our delegation inserted the language for arbitration into the recovery bill.

the Governor did not help in any way to put money into this fund when I asked him for his help.

I am on the Appropriations Committee. Yes, we can help get your project authorized.

we have to take a moment to educate them on the importance of south Louisiana to the Nation.

That hard-fought effort helped ensure adequate appropriations to the FEMA Disaster Relief Fund.

That is your mistake. That is your mistake, and that has to be changed.

It is time to take action and move the West Shore--Lake Pontchartrain Hurricane Protection Project forward.

I might be able to speak for other people in the country that would feel the same way.

My colleague, Senator Vitter, has written to the President in support of that request.

your budget, to me, just looks like a disaster waiting to happen.

What we are operating under now is just not practical. And so we are going to have to have some serious changes there.

We need a more consistent, more robust funding mechanism for building our levees, securing our pump stations, flood protection, internal drainage, and wetlands restoration.

We need as a Nation to plant our flag in Grand Isle, Louisiana, because if we do not do that, the tides and waves of the Gulf of Mexico will be literally lapping at the door of metropolitan New Orleans in the not too distant future.

The RESTORE Act, which we just passed, is going to be bring anywhere from $2 billion to $6 billion to Louisiana.

This decision by General Walsh is not supported by the data from the summit.

The Governor has asked the Federal Government to pick up 100 percent of emergency response costs from Hurricane Isaac by eliminating the normal 25 percent match.

They figure out a way not to do it.

the more we can talk with one voice and the more we can work in a bipartisan manner, the better we are going to be.

And we will make sure that is on the agenda, Senator Vitter, for our meeting in a couple of weeks.

This study has been in your budget for 40 years, and it has not progressed one iota.

It is the wrong way to go.