Mary Landrieu

The ripple effect of real estate that you cannot sell because the premium is unaffordable.

Good intentions to make the program self-sufficient, wholly inadequate data about the loss of affordability.

I do not think we should put out information when it ends up with 80-percent inaccuracy.

I do not believe that FEMA should be allowed to phase out subsidies or end grandfathering until it presents a plan to make flood insurance more affordable.

It is not just about property. It is not the property I am worried about. It is the people, the families.

They do not flood. They do not price their people out of the market.

But should people who have lived their all their lives, who are middle class, be priced out of their homes? And I do not agree.

I fully believe we should stop subsidizing risk as we go forward for new construction, for secondary homes, and for businesses.

They authorized immediate rate increases on homeowners and businesses that played by the rules.

We need help--not only in Louisiana but in many, many, many places in this country.

I am very proud that this Committee has voted out President Obama's recommendation, and it was our own as well, to increase CDFI authority from $3 billion to $4 billion.

But I think that if it is not obvious yet it will be obvious to the American people that some people ought to just not be governing.

When I was State Treasurer, I started the first 'bank-at-school' program in Louisiana for exactly that purpose--for the third graders.

It is our obligation as government, I believe, to make sure that we give those small businesses every opportunity to succeed.

Will the Administration and FEMA delay Biggert-Waters or at least major portions of Biggert-Waters for at least a year?

I regret having missed the July 31, 2013 vote on the confirmation of Byron Jones, of Minnesota, to be Director, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives. Had I been present, I would have voted in favor of the confirmation of…

Reserving the right to object, I am not going to object, but I wanted to ask the majority leader, as you know, we have lost a great American, Ambassador Lindy Boggs. Senator Begich and I just wanted 10 minutes on the floor sometime today…

I am going to support him wholeheartedly. I am going to talk with every Member of this Committee on both sides of the aisle and urge them to quickly confirm this nominee because this department needs all the focus and help.

I am sure it comes as no surprise to him when I say the next Deputy Secretary will have some big shoes to fill.

To me, that says it all. And we need people in our government that are willing to serve people directly, that understand the hearts of people, and I know Ali Mayorkas is that kind of person.

I have hardly worked with a finer individual in any Department of the Federal Government.

We will not go back to a time when businesses cannot afford insurance and cannot grow because of it.

The NFIB, the study that he referred to, was funded by the Group for Health Insurance Industry that worked on the repeal of the Affordable Care Act.

I really would like to get some facts on the record about small business.

Just because the Affordable Care Act became law does not mean that the job of fighting to make it work is over for us.