The first thing we did was increase the amount we bring back to Louisiana, ... We have been and still are what's called a 'donor state.' For every $1 of federal gasoline tax that we spend, we get less than $1 back in federal highway funds. That's wrong, particularly because we are very needy and are considered a relatively poor state. |
The person would have no authority the government doesn't already have. It would be someone who could cut through the red tape. |
The situation has gotten a lot better. The water is not rising right now in New Orleans. |
The United Nations has no business in our elections. |
The whole purpose is to give this a sense of urgency, ... We need to break out of the bureaucratic mentality where everything is studied to death. |
There was absolutely no execution, |
This action today to fund brand new projects, most of which are unrelated to the hurricane, is going to have a lot of folks up here scratching their heads, ... It's not going to build confidence in what we're doing on the ground, and that confidence building is an absolutely necessary part of what we need to have success in Congress. |
This program would clearly allow for the forgiveness of loans, |
This wasn't a failure of one person, although it was that also, ... It was a failure of the whole bureaucracy, and the solution to that isn't getting a new head bureaucrat or a new type of head bureaucrat. I think the whole bureaucratic FEMA model is what has to be probably discarded. |
To me, the single most important thing to me is that he has the right judicial philosophy, ... He will read the law as written by Congress and apply it to the facts of a case as written and not make it up as he goes along based on his views. |
Unfortunately, we're at the top of a really bad list, ... That is railway crossing accidents and fatalities. Although we're not a populous state, we rank in the Top 3 in railway accidents and the Top 5 in deaths related to railway accidents. We have as many dangerous railway crossing as just about any state, except maybe for California and Illinois. |
We do not need international help to stop corruption, we need strong Louisiana Leadership. |
We finally broke through the logjams, partisan politics and obstructionism, particularly in the Senate, and got it done, |
We haven't been disciplined enough over the last 10 years. We need to do that, and we needed to do that before Katrina. We still need to do that over the medium and long term, |
We just have horrible conditions to deal with, ... For instance, every and route into the city except one is flooded and obviously we are using air assets, but it is tough. They are moving things into the city, diesel fuel, water, ice food etc as fast as they can. |