Mary Landrieu

It seems to me that security systems only work if people are willing to use them.

While the objectives of REAL ID are laudable, the law represents an unworkable and unfunded mandate.

We need to reevaluate it because it is not working.

PASS ID provides a solution and a path forward.

We do project for our next fiscal year, which begins July 1, 2009, that we will have a balanced budget.

Let us see if we can't get all these organizations actually honestly working together for the betterment of the companies and for the nation.

We work in a very bipartisan fashion on this committee.

I want to recognize that her senior counsel is here, Mr. Wally Hsueh.

I believe that the road out of this recovery is going to be led by small business.

I encourage the Congress to work towards the passage of other trade agreements, such as Colombia and Panama.

Without a vision, people perish.

We know that more than 2,300 Louisiana businesses exported goods.

Small business cuts across all of the work within the United States Trade Representative.

I, along with my Ranking Member on the committee, Senator Snowe, and Chuck Schumer from New York, who has also been very active in this area, have called for an Assistant Trade Representative focused solely on small business within the…

Whatever helps our entrepreneurs helps our entire economy.

Exporting has become one solution for small businesses looking to survive and grow.

We are literally a main artery, if not the main artery, of our nation's commerce.

I want you to know the importance it is to us.

Will you and the Chief Architect of GSA work with my office to ensure that the agency complies with the Stafford Act and follows its own policy on Gulf Coast reconstruction projects, by allowing locally-based Louisiana firms to participate…

What similarities do you see and what are the one of two things that you think we could really appreciate from the Dutch model?

However, we are going to pursue whatever it takes to the Corps of Engineers to get this project done correctly.

I would just like to close by reading again into the record what the language clearly says about the $3 billion that we allocated in this Congress with a tough battle, a hard fought battle, $3 billion of which $530 million is focused on…

One of the startling things, and I say startling, things that I learned in the delta in The Netherlands is that this country does not even have flood insurance.

As the Senator from this State, I want to say that I am not going to lead the retreat. I will not lead the retreat. We are going to reclaim our land and reclaim our safety.

I reject the notion that either Jefferson Parish or Orleans Parish or St. Bernard Parish or Plaquemines Parish will never have a greater footprint or a higher density or a greater population.