Thad Cochran actually said...

We need to give producers the tools to manage the risks from those weather events and other risks.

But we are here to learn from our witnesses, and so I am going to ask that my full statement be printed in the record and express the hope, ...

These provisions included in the ACA were originally in the Congenital Heart Futures Act, which garnered bipartisan support.

Senator Landrieu and I worked very hard on it to try to implement some of the lessons learned from previous storms.