"Thank you, Senator Kennedy, for your thoughtful approach on getting questions answered. That would not be fair."
"If the homes and the infrastructure built in these communities had the structural resilience to match the spiritual resilience of these residents, we wouldn't see the same kind of devastation that we ..."
"My concern is that when you look at the National Flood Insurance Program, the one thing we have to say is that it hasn't worked the way that it was intended to."
"We have to reexamine the theory of--in my perspective, Mr. Chairman--not just flood insurance, but catastrophic occurrences that are happening more and more across the country."
"That's why I'm reintroducing my bipartisan legislation, the Repeatedly Flooded Communities Preparation Act."
"One of the areas where I think we could spend more time in disaster management is the area of prevention."
"Accessing credit, accessing the American Dream through home ownership is more realistic based on your creditworthiness."
"If you are not including the rent payment, if you are not including beyond credit card payments, the utility payments, the phone bill, the mobile phone bills, there are other ways for us to make sure."
"I have something called the Credit Access and Inclusion Act that allows for more information to be added to the system voluntarily."
"I think we are seeing that in part from the FHFA Director Thompson, who is departing from risk-based pricing on individual loans purchased by the GSEs."
"the use of objective standards is so critically important, and I see this move across the country that somehow we are going to make the lives, specifically of minorities, better by eliminating objecti..."
"Thank you very much, and thank you for joining the fentanyl bill that we all should focus on as it relates to stopping fentanyl from killing 70,000 more Americans, as we see our southern border unsafe..."