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 protect those investments. But we also have to make sure that as we invest in the future, as we rebuild from disasters, we are making investments for future risk, not for old data.

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…

I was pleased to work closely with my good friend Senator Bob Menendez to co-author the Senate flood insurance legislation along with the chairwoman of this Subcommittee, Senator Mary Landrieu.