How is the insurance industry responding to all these new risks?

I am a Senator from Rhode Island, a fellow ocean State.

if there is no further business to come before the Senate, I ask that it stand adjourned under the previous order following the remarks of my Republican colleagues. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

I yield the floor, and I yield back to the Senator from Iowa. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Iowa. ____________________

I think in Congress, that a lot of the ideas that the OLC has propounded are really, really badly wrong.

I hope very much that that resolution can be achieved before a Committee vote on Mr. Fonzone.

I think in Congress, that a lot of the ideas that the OLC has propounded are really, really badly wrong.

Eight years later, there's still no evident sign of an honest look having been taken.

Along with the rise in the groundwater from effectively hydraulic sea level rise pressure, are you also seeing that salt water is intruding through the limestone into what previously were freshwater wells and water sources for homes and…

Senator Kennedy and I have worked together on finding an alternative method because we've given up on the good faith and neutrality of OLC.

I hope very much that that resolution can be achieved before a Committee vote on Mr. Fonzone.

I think we are very much interested in looking at, in addition, how much of this additional warming is going to drive sea level in the short term and what types of measures can we take to really work to constrain the upper limit on sea…

And is the warming of the ocean offshore, including measured up to literally Jacuzzi recommended temperatures, causing an effect on the strength of storms that hit Florida, particularly hurricane level storms that come from the ocean?

Do you think the flood insurance program requirement that you build back in place needs adjustment where properties are predictably going to be flooded over and over and over again in order to protect the integrity of the Federal Flood…

So the multi-party effort has been a significant improvement over FEMA alone in the wild doing mapping?

We yield back our time. Vote on Amendment No. 1249 The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question is on agreeing to the amendment.

And is the warming of the ocean offshore, including measured up to literally Jacuzzi recommended temperatures, causing an effect on the strength of storms that hit Florida, particularly hurricane level storms that come from the ocean?

How is the insurance industry responding to all these new risks?