Political Quotes

One of my proudest accomplishments in the U.S. Senate was authorizing the 2004 law that reauthorized the National Flood Insurance Program.

How would you grade the bill the Senate passed in the last Congress and the bill that recently passed the House in terms of improving the relationships between the premium property owners pay and their actual risk?

I have one more question. I just want to get it in before my time is up.

if the Congress does it that way, you are absolutely correct that this program will fall into an abyss and never pay for itself, and the Government will be on the hook for more than the 18 plus billion dollars it presently is.