Asked by a New Orleans TV reporter about his having voted twice against the creation of a commission to investigate the levee failures around New Orleans, he denied this. 'I have supported, my very dear friends, every investigation and ways of finding out what caused the tragedy. I've been as active as anybody in efforts to restore the city.' Perhaps the senator forgot his Senate votes against establishing the Katrina Response in September 2005 and again in February 2006: the Response is to try to set up committees to investigate what happened to Katrina, or his votes against financial relief of the victims in September 2005, or the five months of initial Medicaid payouts in November 2005 which he voted against, or his vote against the $28 billion emergency funding bill for Katrina victims in May 2006.