Mary Landrieu said...

The goal of the Menendez bill was to have a program that people could afford, a very big difference in goals.

The Senators did not believe that the bill needed to be offset. We thought this was an emergency and we voted that way.

This bill included a critical affordability provision, which the Senate insisted on an 18 percent individual annual cap.

But I am committed, as you all know, as a subcommittee chair of the committee that funds the flood maps, to continue to ...