Political Quotes

“I want to thank the gentleman from North Carolina for yielding. Mr. Speaker, there are two sorts of Members: There are Members who have experienced and been through the devastation of disaster and the constituents they represent, and there are people who will. Those are the two types of Members we have in this body. The gentleman from North Carolina is one of those folks who has been through this. The people he represents have been through this. The current disaster process that we use oftentimes revictimizes the very disaster victims that we are trying to help, that we are trying to save. This legislation is very important and it is insightful. It is insightful because, number one, it brings newer ideas and newer technologies to the table on how we are actually going to quantify the damage associated with disasters. Let's not use these technologies and these techniques from the 1950s and 1960s when it is 2019 and 2020. We need to be taking advantage of these new technologies. What that does, Mr. Speaker, is it results in better, more accurate damage assessments where we are not contributing to the debt and wasting money, as we discussed in previous legislation; it results in faster recovery, faster response to those disaster victims who are out there. This legislation helps to ensure that instead of--we have had it in my home State of Louisiana. We have had our assessors out there doing work.…”