Mary Landrieu

How will the proposed shift in the Department of Labor's (DOL) Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) resources from compliance assistance to enforcement impact these VPP sites in terms of their ability to either obtain or…

What is HHS doing to help States implement these reforms?

I think this subcommittee is going to be shocked when the numbers come in, about what our communities are going to have to either step up or pay in money that they don't have or pay in additional insurance premiums to get flood insurance…

Now, these levees--this levee system was built in large measure after the great flood of 1927, and that was generations ago.

I would just mention to my colleagues, this is really an unprecedented effort that's going on between the Corps and many of the environmental groups, the marine industry, the fisheries industry, the agriculture industry, the oil and gas…

This is the first $10 million that's been directed in a budget for construction

We need $300 million a year just to finish these 18 projects

We're grateful for the $10 million that is in this bill to begin turning dirt

The battery technology is so interesting for all of us, but there are opportunities for plug-in, opportunities for new infrastructure for plug-in, with the current battery technology that we have now.

We think the properties and the potential for natural gas are very significant.

Senator Saxby Chambliss and I have formed the Natural Gas Caucus and it is not because we are anti-oil or anti-coal.

The regulations are already in place--these regulations are impacting the red, white, and blue jobs that have powered our country

But we have 500 million acres, they're now down to a measly, you know, 31 million--what's, you know, what's happening in the other 470 million acres?

There's going to be fierce opposition to taxing this industry, because it is counter to creating jobs and counter to energy independence.

I want to commend you for your work on your Rivers Initiative.

I think I demonstrated at our last meeting that, of all of the spills that have occurred in the entire oceans in the last 30 years, you could contain it in the Reflecting Pool between here and the Washington Monument.

I want to thank you for your commitment to preserving what's special about America; the cultural treasures of our country.

We're losing a football field equivalent of land every 30 minutes.

The current path of the program is not sustainable for the animals, the environment, or the taxpayer.

It might have been a better--listen first and then implement, rather than implement and then see what the impacts are going to be

I want to work with you on a very cost-effective solution for this, because the current system that we have, I believe, is broken, it's expensive, and I don't think the taxpayers will sustain it.

It seems very contrary to our stated goals of being more energy sufficient in the United States.

Can I just have your, just brief 30 seconds on your commitment to helping us find a way forward?

The way that the United States of America--under both Republican and Democratic rule--have essentially dealt with the Land and Water Conservation Fund as essentially a 50-year broken promise to America.

We believe it is extremely cost effective and it is helping us train our first responders.