Luetkemeyer: “Despite the numerous testimonies, hearings, statements, and letters highlighting these issues, this committee has…”

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?

This all goes back to monetary policy from the standpoint that rules and regulations are strangling our economy so that people can't participate in the economy.

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

Small businesses are where you generate the jobs. And if we are not allowing those folks to be created, we are hurting ourselves.