Does Florida have a public model today?

the private sector cannot easily compete with the public sector in providing reinsurance.

And your chart will be entered into the record.

One of the problems that we have here in the Senate is the fact that Senators from States that are not coastal States tend to think that hurricanes are not their problem.

I think we're going to be able to get that satellite up, because now the Department of Defense has a need for another instrument...

Inexperience? What do you mean? Well, we do it with volunteers, and instead of driving two nails they would drive ten nails.

So, you're not worried about the column of air from the max altitude of the C-130 and the P-3?

I'll never forget, in the aftermath of Hurricane Andrew, in 1992, in which all of the Habitat for Humanity homes survived, when so many of those other subdivisions were just blown away.

More hurricanes have ripped through my home state of Florida than any other state in the Nation.

most of the cost is borne by the American taxpayer, wherever that taxpayer happens to live, because clearly we've seen, in the case of Hurricane Katrina, almost half of the economic loss of that hurricane was borne by the Federal…

I'm grateful for your hospitality, Mr. Chairman, thank you. Your generosity. You're very kind.

We limit the amount of advertising, but we don't regulate the content. Is it time to revisit this issue?