That is why I introduced a discussion draft for today's hearing, Mr. Chairman that would modernize FHA's ability to finance multifamily housing construction around the country.

FEMA has long struggled to keep premiums affordable, but it appears that the NFIP's new rating methodology, called Risk Rating 2.0, has only made flood insurance more out of reach for working and middle-class families.

That is what my bipartisan HELPER Act is, and we look forward to working with the Committee on that.

Like the canary in the coal mine, the recent spate of tragic whale deaths shed new light and increased scrutiny to the fast-tracking of thousands of wind turbines off our coast.

Our ocean, as you know so well, is filled to overflowing with military and civilian vessels that may be significantly put at risk by radar malfunction caused by ocean wind turbines.

I represent several military installations in my New Jersey district, including Naval Weapons Station Earle.

The leadership of our international support for Ukraine against the Russian invasion just highlights so many of the issues we will be addressing.

enforcement of MHPAEA is absolutely critical.

We opened our gates. We opened our doors.

It is cruel to tell people, because you are going to make a stabilizing brace illegal, that their little babies are going to be OK; that their children are going to be OK; that their families are going to be OK--because it just isn't true.

We just can't let the gates be open.

We created child slavery here in this country.

it would be major, that it would increase the risk of collisions, which could result in personal injury or loss of life.

multiple offshore wind leases lie directly on top of highly problematic areas that might harm our national security.

I think you are going to hear not from hundreds, but tens of thousands of residents who don't want this.

I originally thought it sounded like a really neat idea.

I don't agree with what you and your company is doing.

I spoke to you folks a long time ago. I originally thought it sounded like a really neat idea.