Dan Burton: “I appreciate the Rules Committee allowing an amendment sponsored by the gentleman from Massachusetts, [Mr. Frank] and…”

“I appreciate the Rules Committee allowing an amendment sponsored by the gentleman from Massachusetts, [Mr. Frank] and myself to deal with some cuts totalling about $1.2 billion. I would just like to say that the problem in California falls heavily on all of us. We hate to see that kind of suffering, and I am certainly going to support this legislation and support the aid to those people. But the problem is that a lot of these people are not insured for a number of reasons. What we need to do is to have a Federal reinsurance program like in the Norman Mineta bill, which I am cosponsoring, which will allow insurance companies to go into every area of the country where we have had huge losses and still provide coverage, and in addition to that, the people who live in these areas ought to be required to have insurance in these high-risk areas like the earthquake areas, or flood areas or the hurricane areas. The reason for that is because if they do not have, the Federal taxpayer has to come to their aid.”