MICHAEL GRIMM: “If a private company is on life support and you say to them we are going to play hardball so that you go out of business…”

This audit was released over a year ago and to this day, the complaints of poor service from the VA to schedule timely medical appointments is still one of the most frequent by veterans in my district.

I think Chris Christie in the end comes out of this looking like a breath of fresh air that he's honest and he's open and he can deal with a crisis.

We want to move away from risk identification of that binary line. We want to move into graduated risk analysis and true flood management of multi-frequency hazards, including future conditions.

I completely understand the need for actuarially-sound programs. But I think where we are missing it is the balance between actuarially sound and functionally and practically sound.