"Congress repeatedly emphasized the primacy of State regulation in the insurance industry."
"The best consumer protections we have out there in any type of regulatory environment in this world and you are saying it is less stringent?"
"Your testimony is incorrect. It doesn't require this law to come into effect to allow for less stringent regulation, just the opposite."
"I mean, it feeds the world with fertilizer."
"It sounds like we can consolidate the design and engineering, but it all comes down to a function of funding to get it started."
"I think the Operation Chokepoint has to be one of the most self-serving, corrupt abuses of power that this country has ever exercised."
"I believe as members of the House we have a responsibility to make sure the taxpayer is protected."
"A hundred and fifty thousand properties that did not have flood insurance, so what impact does that have?"
"Rather than say go forth and God bless, it is the duty of this body and the House of Representatives and, in particular, this committee to say, in the words of Lee Corso, 'Hold on, not so fast.'"
"Are we going to be able to have affordable mortgages under this particular type? And if not, I would like to know that, but if so, why would you say so?"
"If there is more availability would there not be more affordability?"