And the issues I think are important in Louisiana right now happen to be health care and education. And those are two areas that the federal government can play a very important role. And I think I can be effective in trying to help our state from the Washington scene.

I put myself and all the members of Congress in the same boat of things that could have been done better.

I object to you using words like squander and pork. What is pork in one part of the country is an essential project in another part.

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