Mary Landrieu

We are grateful for his leadership.

I continue to call on FEMA and the Administration to resolve these disparities so that communities that were equally devastated by Hurricane Katrina are not treated unfairly in the Community Disaster Loan (CDL) process.

She has just been a tigress in getting that legislation passed for us.

I think that is critically important.

Thank you so much, Administrator, and again, this is a perfect example.

I live in the most powerful country in the world. Surely our Federal Government is going to come in and provide some assistance.

I have no doubt we will continue to produce results, results this region needs to not only rebuild, but rebuild stronger, better, and faster.

He has done two tours of Iraq, two tours overseas, and we are grateful, Paul, for your service to our State and our Nation.

If they are found simply negligent, they will pay $5 billion. If they are found grossly negligent, they will pay approximately $20 billion.

I am very grateful to be able to serve as Chairman of this Subcommittee, and we have conducted any number of hearings over the course of the last 5 years related to smarter, better disaster response and recovery.

I cannot help but to feel great optimism, great enthusiasm for the future of New Orleans and the region.

I would hope that you would take some time very soon to sit down face-to-face with these elected officials.

We need to transform the city and the metropolitan area in a way that we start to see indicators and outcomes that improve upon past performance

We will always be grateful to our first responders who saved so many lives.

Winston Churchill once said, if you are going through hell, keep going.

We should take this opportunity to help learn from them.

Senator Landrieu was fighting for it.

I thank all the leaders that are coming to Louisiana and Mississippi and Alabama to our help and rescue. Congress is going to an unprecedented session to pass a $10 billion supplemental bill tonight to keep FEMA -- and the Red Cross up and…

The issuance of a six-month moratorium on deepwater drilling is an overreach, not necessary, and has been deemed arbitrary and capricious by the Federal courts.

This blanket moratorium will not help us achieve or advance that goal.

If the moratorium lasts longer, some 25,000 jobs could be in jeopardy.

This Administration's decision to halt drilling activity did more than threaten the livelihoods of rig workers and oil service crews.

Our Federal Government has a responsibility, particularly in these difficult times, to make sure that these paychecks do not turn into pink slips.

I believe the action to impose this moratorium has actually increased environmental risk to our oceans and coastal wetlands.

I am going to put the full weight of this committee behind the lifting of this moratorium as soon as possible.