David Vitter
David Vitter
David Bruce Vitteris the senior United States Senator from Louisiana and a member of the Republican Party. Previously, he served in the United States House of Representatives, representing the suburban Louisiana's 1st congressional district. He served as a member of the Louisiana House of Representatives before entering the U.S. House...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth3 May 1961
CountryUnited States of America
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I'd very much like to explore that, ... I know it's a big idea and it's very ambitious and costly, but I think we need to explore that, particularly a southern route going through Ascension and Livingston and connecting I-12 to I-10.
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Hopefully today is the turnaround, that is my prayer,
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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.
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I feel very strongly that we need a strong federal leader,
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I have four children, and they are my four greatest reasons to make sure we meet our goal of securing a strong future for Louisiana.
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I'd love to see more written material that predates the nomination,
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If the American people lose confidence in this effort, Louisiana and the victims of the storm are going to suffer, so we have to have those protections in place.
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I am hopeful we are turning the corner.
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We're talking about an entire major American metropolitan area that has been completely dislocated, completely evacuated, ... Last time that happened in American history was the Civil War.
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My guess is that it will start at 10,000, but that is only a guess,
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Richard is a senior member of the House's Transportation Committee, ... I was on a relevant Senate committee. We were both named to the joint legislative committee which developed the final version of the bill. If not for Richard's leadership, a lot of this wouldn't have gotten done.
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On the positive side, I'm very impressed so far with Vice Admiral Allen,
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I was really uplifted here. There are heroes to this story and they are the local leaders and private citizens who banded together in the individual communities that were devastated to just get the job done in the initial days, with no help in those initial days coming in from outside, they got it done and they are the real heroes.
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She suggested basically that a lot more was being read into that than what she was trying to express,