acknowledge senator bill cassidy, senator bill vitter, representative derrick graves and representative cedrick richmond, the mayor of baton rouge, kip holden, and somebody who i can't brag enough about, one of the best hires i made as president, the administrator of fema, craig fugate, who has done such an outstanding job, not just in dealing with this particular incide, really rebuilt fema so that there is a change of culture and everybody knows that when the disaster happens, fema is going to be there on the ground, cooperating with state and local officials rapidly, and with attention to detail and keeping the families who have been affected upper most in their minds. we very much appreciate everything craig has done. it is hard, by the way, for craig to be here because he's a lsu t-shirts as we have been passing by. i just had a chance to see some of the damage from the historic floods here in louisiana. i come here first and foremost to say that the prayers of the entire nation are with everybody who lost loved ones. we are heart broken by the loss of life. there are also people who were

acknowledge senator bill cassidy, senator bill vitter, representative derrick graves and representative cedrick richmond, the mayor of baton rouge, kip holden, and somebody who i can't brag enough about, one of the best hires i made as president, the administrator of fema, craig fugate, who has done such an outstanding job, not just in dealing particular incident, but has really rebuilt fema so that there is a change of culture and everybody knows that when the disaster happens, fema is going to be there on the ground, cooperating with state and local officials rapidly, and with attention to detail and keeping the families who have been affected upper most in their minds. we very much appreciate everything craig has done. it is hard, by the way, for florida gator. and he's been seeing a lot of lsu t-shirts as we have been passing by. i just had a chance to see some of the damage from the historic floods here in louisiana. i come here first and foremost to say that the prayers of the entire nation are with everybody who lost loved ones. we are heart broken by the loss of life. there are also peo