The administration believes Texas is OK.

The greatest hindrance Southeast Texas has had is the administration, the president.

The thing I do not want to do is do anything that will hurt the citizens of Jefferson County or keep them from getting the assistance they need.

The focus now is appropriations. Then we need transition to economic development and then work-force issues.

Rita was not a normal storm.

I have been to the Ninth Ward. There is debris in the Ninth Ward, but you don't have people. We say, send the money where the people are.