This is a national issue, be assured. We might be feeling it first.
it is our obligation as government, I believe, to make sure that we give those small businesses every opportunity to suc...
When I was State Treasurer, I started the first 'bank-at-school' program in Louisiana for exactly that purpose--for the ...
Nobody is saying get rid of the NEPA process, nobody is saying get rid of the review process. But it needs to be far mor...
But I think that if it is not obvious yet it will be obvious to the American people that some people ought to just not b...
I am very proud that this Committee has voted out President Obama's recommendation, and it was our own as well, to incre...
Opening statement
We need help--not only in Louisiana but in many, many, many places in this country.
They authorized immediate rate increases on homeowners and businesses that played by the rules.
But should people who have lived their all their lives, who are middle class, be priced out of their homes? And I do not...
I fully believe we should stop subsidizing risk as we go forward for new construction, for secondary homes, and for busi...
Mostly bad.
They do not flood. They do not price their people out of the market.
It is not just about property. It is not the property I am worried about. It is the people, the families.
I do not think we should put out information when it ends up with 80-percent inaccuracy.
I do not believe that FEMA should be allowed to phase out subsidies or end grandfathering until it presents a plan to ma...
The ripple effect of real estate that you cannot sell because the premium is unaffordable.
Good intentions to make the program self-sufficient, wholly inadequate data about the loss of affordability.
