Sheldon Whitehouse actually said...

"Because we are on the losing end of 30:1 in Rhode Island."

"What used to be adequate is not adequate."

"As Members of Congress, we need to make sure that FEMA's mapping gets up to speed and that communities are not being asked to rely on false information and bad mapping estimates."

"I think we need to fix that. I know we have been through a problem of earmarks that received a lot of justified criticism. Our response was to abandon this responsibility entirely. I think that was an..."