If we guess wrong, in terms of a program that is supposed to protect people from a disaster, let's say crop insurance, if we guess wrong, we have something called a supplemental ap...
The point I'd like to get to is whether or not we can come to some consensus here, beyond the political debate about cli...
We are not prepared. Our weather events are getting worse, catastrophic in fact . . . The Federal government is ignoring...
So you see the weather pattern and also the residential or settlement pattern coming together?
It would seem to me that what you're suggesting is that we are understating the premiums necessary to cover the risk, wh...
We stopped talking about this on Capitol Hill. We decided that the debate over global warming was too contentious, too p...
So when you have a--a large storm or a hurricane, you get even more damage because of, you know, that large amount of wa...
Federal budgets rarely set aside adequate resources in anticipation of disasters, and instead, rely on emergency supplem...
the Gulf of Mexico dead zone is a particular concern because it threatens valuable commercial and recreational gulf fish...
I've had the good fortune of meeting a lot of Illinois farmers, which is your family background.
Heavy rain in the Midwest, water flowing down through the rivers, flooding that it causes on the way down, the damage---...