Political Quotes

This is not just a Louisiana, Mississippi, coastal issue. The 450 counties that are most threatened produce 50 percent of the GDP of this Nation.

We have to make decisions about where we build going forward. This is not a sustainable risk we can continue to do with no change.

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

I am going to really be pushing this subcommittee, the whole Committee on Appropriations, the Committee on Banking, and the Congress to get complete and accurate flood maps done before we engage in trying to rewrite a flood insurance program.