Haley Barbour
Haley Barbour
Haley Reeves Barbouris an American Republican politician who served as the 63rd Governor of Mississippi, from 2004 to 2012. He was given a national spotlight in August 2005 when Mississippi was hit by Hurricane Katrina. He served as Chairman of the Republican National Committee from 1993 to 1997. Prior to holding elective office, Barbour was a lobbyist and co-founder of the Washington lobbying firm BGR Group. which he again joined after his service as governor. Barbour also co-chairs the Bipartisan...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth22 October 1947
CountryUnited States of America
The federal government is not prioritizing; they're throwing everything they've got at it, ... They've even deployed the Navy, the first time in our nation's history it's been used for a natural disaster. They are pushing everything in here possible from thousands of National Guard troops to temporary living quarters to the best scientists and epidemiologists. This will be the biggest relief effort, the largest humanitarian effort in the history of the world.
This is a small solution, ... We are going to look at base camps and modular cities, if you will. But I just want to say to you we are not where we need to be on temporary housing.
While it took a long time, the Legislature has passed the essential parts of the special session agenda, ... We will put those into effect immediately.
We will fail if we don't allow the casinos to come on shore.
We got hit by the worst natural disaster in the history of the United States.
To that end I am proposing an agenda that can be summed up by three words: Momentum, UpGrade and Streamline. We must continue our Momentum in job creation and economic growth, UpGrade education in this tough budget period and Streamline that budget back into structural balance.
Those people on the coast ... I'm begging you to evacuate,
We want to get people back to work,
Weight is something with which many of us struggle, including me, so I have a special appreciation for the educational, physical and emotional value of diet, exercise and other elements of healthier living.
We're going to be fine at the end of the day, ... but the end of the day's a long way away.
We're very hopeful that some really good ideas will be put forward,
To me looting is about the equivalent of grave robbing, ... We're not going to stand for it.
Before I was chairman they were generous donors, and they were while I was chairman.
Even though personally he is not in favor of gaming, he let the House work its will. He deserves credit and no one else,