I represent south Florida where a large portion of my district lives on or near the coast.

I am a cosponsor of the Flood Insurance Premium Parody Act, a bill which would extend the recent NFIP reforms to business properties and owner-occupied second homes.

Thank you, Chairwoman Comstock, for holding this hearing on cybersecurity and I want to welcome you to the Science, Space, and Technology Committee.

Cybercrime threatens our privacy, our pocketbooks, our safety, our economy, and our national security.

I just wanted to get back to HealthCare.gov, and my understanding is that companies are not actually perched on the HealthCare.gov but they are receiving--they are being given data from there.

I have a tremendous amount of respect for him and he was a big supporter of funding for research.

Cybersecurity remains a timely topic, it is a topic on which this Committee has an important role.

I would just say briefly that, as I mentioned in my testimony, seeing predisaster mitigation withering away seems to me to be the wrong message.

I think that points out the importance of social science research that is done to help us better understand and to teach people how to, you know, avoid stepping into these--a lot of these cyber problems and being victims of cyber crimes.

the important thing is looking here at security and, you know, we--as I said, privacy is another issue but the security is something that I think we have talked about here and had hearings here and have not found any issues with that.

What is unthinkable is a hurricane going directly into New Orleans, or what is unthinkable is really strong hurricanes hitting the New York City and New Jersey areas.

But they are not going to do that. They are going to reduce it, but not eliminate it.

Today I, along with many of my Republican colleagues, will reintroduce the Pay Back the Taxpayers Act.

I cannot imagine how it cannot give him more leverage.

the implication for these nuclear negotiations are far reaching and we cannot be willing to carry on with this farce.

the administration's goal is not to prevent Iran from ever getting a nuclear weapon. It is merely to delay that action.

I think the sunset provision frankly is unfortunate.

The restrictions put in place through such a comprehensive solution will only remain in place for a specific amount of time, so it can't be comprehensive.