Eleanor Norton actually said...

"The problem is that these were unprecedented disasters."

"It is--but it is a very rare example of the Congress being able to fund before the fact."

"Are you engaged in that kind of really foresighted advice to--as part of mitigation that apparently the whole vision of what you did before is no longer viable, in light of these unprecedented storms ..."

"Unless something is done now, this cycle of build, damage, and rebuild will continue."