[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 156 (2010), Part 7]
[House]
[Page 9267]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




               PROTECT LOUISIANA MARSHES FROM CATASTROPHE

  (Mr. SCALISE asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. SCALISE. Mr. Speaker, it's been a month now, over a month, since 
oil has been spewing into the Gulf of Mexico from the Deepwater Horizon 
well explosion.
  And now 2 weeks after our Governor submitted a request to the Federal 
Government for a plan that we put on the table to protect our marsh 
from oil coming in, we still have not heard one word from the 
President, 2 weeks after the request was made. This isn't something 
that BP can approve; this is something that only requires Federal 
approval and the Federal Government is standing in the way of our 
leaders on the ground protecting our marsh.
  Where is the President? Does he not understand the magnitude of what 
is probably the worst environmental disaster in the country? And then 
we get mixed messages from his various Cabinet secretaries who come 
down and they say, looks like they are satisfied with the coordination 
going on.
  They need to come down to New Orleans. The President needs to come 
down to New Orleans and actually help us and do his job.
  We are tired of them talking like John Wayne and acting like Pee-wee 
Herman. It's time to step up.

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