Bob Menendez Jr.

You cannot just eliminate the NFIP.

So while some might think privatizing the program is a simple solution, the truth is far more complicated and dangerous.

Is it appropriate for these private companies that have no skin in the game to receive more than a third of all premiums collected?

Isn't that true, Mr. Wright?

FEMA's private contractors account for more than 90 percent of the cases the Nielsen law firm did everything in its power to drag out the proceedings.

When you have no liability and all the upside, you know, that is--we would all like to have that business.

I appreciate you calling for a full hearing on a timely topic.

President Trump inherited a campaign that has made some significant gains to oust ISIS from its strongholds.

why we have to support new democracies to help them sustain--build and sustain democratic institutions.

One of the successes of the Affordable Care Act was the establishment of a nationwide benefit standard called the essential health benefits package.

I look forward to working with you on the subcommittee's enormous breadth and scope of jurisdiction.

I did not run for President because I am not as young or handsome as you or as witty and charming as Senator Kaine.

We have to use the leverage that we have consistently to try to encourage openings in situations.

A decade, a decade of democratic recession, what do you attribute that to?

Are you suggesting that you cannot tell the committee a simple answer to the question that it should not matter where you live in the Nation, that in fact you should have access to the same coverage as any other child?

The resolution would add $9.5 trillion to the deficit.

Not one--not one--of those 134 presidents has been African American or Latino. That is pretty outrageous.

It is shocking. Shocking.

When you move to a block grant, you remove the right and you make it a possibility subject to whatever funding there is going to be.

Medicare guarantees as a right, it guarantees care for seniors, like my late mother who worked in the factories of New Jersey as a seamstress, was not in a unionized factory, did not have private insurance.

You keep referring to entities. The Office of Thrift Supervision hit you with a consent order because you were actually putting homeowners on a fast track to foreclosure.

So do you believe that you made every effort to prevent foreclosures and keep families in their homes?

It does not take a rocket scientist to understand the word 'list all positions'--all positions.

You were a director at Sears for 12 years, where you had oversight over the administration and investment into the pension fund. That pension fund has been underfunded. Its benefits were cut during the time period that you were there.

I know you were not lobbying for the sanctions.