Luetkemeyer: “One of the biggest problems that I have with them is this power grab by the bureaucracy to take more power to themselves…”

This has to stop. ... It is going to be a direct cost to the consumers, and it is going to hurt the small banks especially.

I think the tax cuts of 2017 showed that leaving money in people's pockets... seems to work.

I have been an advocate for a long, long time of reinsurance to be able to minimize the taxpayers' exposure on flood insurance.

Do you think it would be a good idea for us as legislators to look at doing this in other areas of government, where we could pass off some of the risk to the private sector versus having taxpayers take on all this risk?