Mark Pryor: “let me thank all my colleagues who have come here today to talk about this issue. It turns out we have had two Democrats…”

“let me thank all my colleagues who have come here today to talk about this issue. It turns out we have had two Democrats and two Republicans. We may have more on the way. I know of at least one or two others who may be on the way. I would like to say thank you to them for their assistance here, but also, more importantly, I thank them for doing a great job representing their States well. When you look at their States and the number of levees they have in their States, the number of people who will be adversely impacted by this, this is a very significant piece of legislation. It deserves debate. I do not like the fact that somewhere in this building, behind closed doors, people are trying to negotiate this legislation into a larger package. We should let the Senate be the Senate. We should bring the National Flood Insurance Program bill to the floor by regular order, we should debate it, we should offer amendments, and we should vote on those amendments and vote on final passage. We should not have any funny business.…”