Political Quotes

this program, I think people have to get a reset button on this program.

It shouldn't require an act of Congress to get them to do something that would be common sense.

We have to acknowledge we have built infrastructure we own. It is not going to go away anytime soon.

But I am committed, as you all know, as a subcommittee chair of the committee that funds the flood maps, to continue to hold these hearings regularly in hopes that we can have accurate flood maps prior to 2017 when this program has to be reauthorized by the Committee on Banking so that they can do their job well and get a program that works as we want to for everyone, the taxpayer, the homeowner, the neighborhoods, et cetera.