Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I rise today in strong opposition to the reauthorization of the National Flood Insurance Program. Mr. Speaker, for 20 years, Congress has been putting off making meaningful reforms to this problematic program. Taxpayers continue to pay the price for our failure to act. With every year that passes, the NFIP goes further and further into debt. The unsustainability of this program has even caused Congress to cancel $16 billion in NFIP debt last year. Without meaningful reform like what this body approved when we passed the 21st Century Flood Reform Act, what protections do taxpayers have? Mr. Speaker, the reauthorization before us today is not reform. By simply changing the date of the NFIP expiration, this body is tacitly stating that reform can't be done. Enough is enough. We can't continue to pass our problems along to those in the future. The time to fix this problem is now. I will oppose extensions of the NFIP as long as this body continues to ignore meaningful reforms. Mr. Speaker, I invite all my colleagues to join me in voting ``no'' on this legislation.”