Mary Landrieu

I think that this use of the mechanisms you have now put in place to work on this long-term recovery from Hurricane Katrina give us an ideal way to test some of these thoughts and build into the national recovery framework.

To expedite it, we have tried to--and I have inserted language into the Stimulus package on this--set up some sort of independent arbitration panel.

Thank you for honoring your commitment to come down to the Gulf Coast early in your term.

Senator Collins and I introduced, and the Senate passed, an amendment to the budget resolution a short while ago for the next fiscal year that added $500 million for security at the Southwest border.

We have allocated about $7.5 billion in the Gulf Coast for FEMA Public Assistance.

I take the increase that the President has recommended as a testament to this Administration's commitment to the Department's critical mission of keeping our homeland safe.

How are we making progress--I hope--in coming to some resolution on building safely in V-Zones so we can get post offices, hospitals, and schools, so we are not asking these communities to function without the framework necessary for them…

The 2nd Bomb Wing, located at Barksdale Air Force Base, has an urgent need for a new Weapons Load Training Facility.

Reinvigorate the Nuclear Enterprise is currently, your number one service priority.

I urge you to request the U.S. Census Bureau develop a plan that will reach the undocumented and the documented the same way.

Data collected in the U.S. Census affects how billions of dollars in Federal and State funding is given to communities that are suffering.

It will diminish the potential of this community and it will have a great impact on future generations of Latinos in this country.

An incomplete and inaccurate Census denies Latinos a right granted by the Constitution of the United States.

It has been made very clear by the Obama administration that they have no intention of pursuing the used nuclear fuel repository at Yucca.

Your partnership here is extremely powerful. And it is immensely encouraging to me and to my constituents

We need to refocus on more internal manufacturing capacity and, again, new technology because we are still using vaccination technology of a number of decades ago...

I wonder if there are some things that Health and Human Services, Homeland Security, and the public health officials of the country could recommend...

I know the primary debate, and it is an important debate, is how this is coordinated between agencies and who might take the lead role, but you have been very clear that there will be many agencies involved.

Is there any role for the National Guard that any of you could foresee in this?

Let me ask you, has the Pentagon identified which branch of the Armed Services should take the lead on this effort?

I am convinced that you are the right person for this job.

His is a wonderful face to see, and we in Louisiana so appreciate his voice at probably the most difficult time our State has ever faced.

This nominee will have my support, but I want you and the Ranking Member to know that I am going to be working weekly, as we rebuild our region in the Gulf Coast.

I just want to bring this to the attention of this Committee, that moving communities is an option if the communities are small enough to move...

I cannot figure out why more of my colleagues do not appreciate just the numbers on this.