Mary Landrieu

The Democrats calling it the Louisiana Watergate.

It is my privilege to introduce two outstanding attorneys in the State of Louisiana to be Federal judges.

It seems to me to have so much promise for what this country needs right now, starting with jobs and economic vitality.

Absolutely. We have a great deal of that in a part of the country that I come from.

This area could host a small modular nuclear facility with generated electricity for the Air Force Base

I mean, we are literally spending billions, billions of dollars in all sorts of different ways.

What I'd like to do is turn all these green on go.

This seems like such a possible step forward

The technology is real and with a dedicated commitment from the government and industry, I see a bright future for not only the country, but in particular Louisiana.

Nuclear energy should have a large seat at the energy table

Nuclear has the potential to provide clean, cheap energy for our country.

These primary advantages: affordability, speed of construction, and flexibility may indicate that for these initial years of what I hope will be a true 'nuclear renaissance', we may want to think smaller instead of larger--and build more…

I support these two bills before the committee, which is why I am agreeing to co-sponsor them today.

Well, let me ask you this. Has the National Governors Association either post-Hurricanes Katrina, Rita, Gustav, or Ike, or post any major disaster established a permanent subcommittee among the National Governors to work on these issues.

So it was truly a private----

The numbers of kids who are homeless in New Orleans are much larger than they have ever been before the storm

Thank you very much, and thank you for creating this new model, and also your passion.

Congress did come along and provided 100 percent Medicaid funding, provided uncompensated care package.

I want to urge this Subcommittee and I want to urge Congress to consider a permanent fund to be available for these kinds of displacements.

I just really, really encourage you to really understand just the dynamics of what happens in a major catastrophe and the special needs of this particular population.

This issue of who is taking care of children while you are trying to recover is central to the successful recovery effort

We can't continue to neglect these facilities and families who rely on them nor can we continue to underestimate their importance to a full and robust recovery.

The Subcommittee's overall objective today is to evaluate the special needs of children during the preparedness, response, and recovery phase of disasters.

Our time is coming to an end, but Mr. Walker, just again for the record, your organization, Fleur-de-lis, received how much money from government sources and how much from charitable contributions?

The school environment really needs to be opened up to provide this type of treatment post-Katrina