"The 10 percent is the limiting factor, in addition to the 86 percent payment rate."
"The people occupying the leadership positions in Minnesota right now still could be part of a problem ongoing."
"This is really coming back to my roots in so many ways."
"We are all God's people. And guess who put all the minerals here? It wasn't happenstance."
"I have serious concerns about the potential of default that is hanging over our heads."
"Thank you again, Chairwoman, for the opportunity to introduce my constituent, Greg Ackerman."
"I always tell folks that criticize crop insurance that you are not getting a payout unless you have a loss."
"For me, this is a chance to rekindle some thoughts I had as a young boy..."
"Well, we are the United States of America. The best solutions come at, by far, the local levels."
"Wouldn't it be better to have the infrastructure here now instead of waiting until--oh, my God, we are being invaded."
"I support fielding increased quantities of critical munitions like SM-6 and appreciate that inventories are critically low relative to warfighter requirements."
"In my district, I was shocked that 4 times within one summer, I think between June and July, the City of Dearborn had huge amounts of flooding."
"The average home insurance in Detroit specifically is about $3,700. And the majority of homes in my communities that I mentioned are valued at less than $100,000."
"It infuriates me when I have to pick up the phone or use my letterhead to say, hey, here is all of the things that my resident submitted."
"What is she supposed to do at that point? Because whether she went to the FEMA site, they said, sorry."
"I come from an incredibly strong community, the City of Detroit, where we have birthed movements on a number of things that I think kind of change the trajectory for our whole country."
"we have got to ensure that consumers are the ultimate arbiter of the data while allowing companies to perform any action that consumers should reasonably expect"
"To best safeguard America's sensitive information we need privacy by design, not privacy through popups"