Now these new flood maps create a lot of difficulties for homeowners in Massachusetts and all around the country.

Will this technology mean that FEMA flood designations can go home by home so that each homeowner will know the elevation and, therefore, their part of the risk that their home faces?

But the question I asked is, what kind of timetable do you think you have on this?

I urge you to think about what should happen in the interim as you move toward this science and, in the interim, how it is that we better serve families who have newly been added to these flood zones.

When Congress passed Biggert-Waters a few years ago, homeowners got blindsided by significant rate increases and new flood zone maps.

So, if the homeowner wants to say, wait a minute, we are higher than the others around here, for example, then they have already got the information, in effect, for free in this process.

I really want to say here, though, this is a real hardship on people who are newly being designated in these flood zone areas.

the United States is the only high-income country not to require paid family and medical leave, and the result is dismal.

I appreciate the work that Moms Rising is doing on this to draw attention to the importance of our getting paid family leave here.

I believe it's time to cut the interest rate on student loans, and I think this should be something that we should be able to support, both Democrats and Republicans.

I'm disappointed about what happened because student loan refinancing should not be a partisan issue.