These small businesses simply do not have the resources or capital that larger companies do to quickly rebuild.

There is a clear case to be made, in my mind, that but for FHA in the midst of this housing crisis we would have a far greater crisis on our hands.

It took a lot of work to restore service on New Jersey Transit which suffered disruptions on every rail line.

Do you have a different view than Moody's data that shows that the FHA's presence in the market prevented housing prices from dropping another 25 percent?

I am going to be working with this Committee--I look forward to it--to rebuild New Jersey's transportation infrastructure to make it stronger and more resilient.

We desperately need, Madam Chair, to provide the Army Corps the funding it needs to do not beach replenishment; this is about engineered beaches that save lives, save money, and stop us from repetitive loss.

Well, getting electricity back up. I think we've done a pretty good job on search and rescue.

So just thinking outside of the box and cutting through the bureaucracy and getting it straight to the relief.

You know, can we use military transport? ... Great. Can we transport them in a C-130?

But I know that the President and Congressional Democrats, including myself, fought hard to create this agency, and dismantling it or weakening it would be a terrible mistake.

I have long advocated national standards for banks that collect homeowners' mortgage payments.

I have introduced the Prepaid Card Consumer Protection Act, and I want to applaud the agency for starting the process of regulating prepaid cards.