Mary Landrieu

It is a priority for, I think, the majority of the Members of the Senate... to get deepwater drilling back up and operational in the Gulf of Mexico as soon as possible.

Thank you, Admiral. And again, thank you for your testimony today, for your forthrightness, for asking for what you really need.

I'm concerned about the increased reliance by these major drug dealers to basically build their own submarines.

International adoptions is an important issue to me to make sure that we are doing the very best we can in customs.

This is the right thing to do. I support the funding.

I helped to lead the effort to privatize the Army housing, which has been really successful with the family housing.

We need to stop these drugs in the transit zone where we can pick up that 6.6 million tons of cocaine.

Intelligence is probably one of the most important things for us, because it will tell us oftentimes not only where to go, but what ship to look at.

We cannot continue to ask these young patriots to go out to sea in 40-year-old ships, living in conditions that were World War II vintage.

The TSA screener cap provision at 46,000. I do not know if that is going to be effective.

33,000 Mexican citizens have died during the Mexican Government's admirable, but very difficult campaign against drug trafficking.

We want to have an honest and open and transparent Government, which is always so important.

As soon as you assign your priorities, let us know.

Thank you, Madam Chair.

The flood maps are of great concern to myself, Senator Cochran, and other Senators up along the Mississippi River.

Improving the entry process for visitors to the United States I think is important.

I do think that is something that we need to keep in mind as we press forward on these negotiations.

I actually think this subcommittee is going to have to push hard to get this emergency funding in a supplemental.

Some of us are having difficulty understanding how it can be treated almost as a stepchild.

The Coast Guard's discretionary budget has increased less than 1 percent.

This is not a time to cut back on our homeland security.

We are having a terrible time in this area.

It is irresponsible to take vital resources away from our most threatened area.

It cuts port security grants, deep cuts to the Coast Guard, which are particularly troubling to myself and I think Senator Cochran as well.

My goal is to produce a bipartisan, fiscally responsible Homeland Security bill for fiscal year 2012.