"I find it puzzling, after working so hard to pass a law that specifically caps rate increases and encourages FEMA to strive to keep flood insurance affordable, that we are still hearing about outrageous increases that threaten to do more economic damage to families than the storm itself."
"This is a national issue of the highest priority."
"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 prio..."
"It is my goal to make sure we do not have any more Claudettes or Ricks slipping through the cracks."
"Thank you, Administrator Fugate, for testifying this afternoon. You have one tough job, to implement this program, which is important to the whole Nation."
"I hope this spirit of bipartisanship will prove to be a catalyst for enactment of future bipartisan legislation."
"But the law does say very clearly here that it has to be in plain English."
"We have to acknowledge we have built infrastructure we own. It is not going to go away anytime soon."
"The people on the inside of the levee should have much lower rates with that levee built than without that levee."
"I am sorry that we have left out Alaska and Hawaii. I am sorry, Senator Murkowski. We will fix that."
"We also removed the property sales trigger, which had frozen real estate markets and threatened to rob many middle-class families."