I thank the leader very much. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Without objection, it is so ordered. The Senator from Texas.

Is the flood insurance bill that was passed by the House that will extend flood insurance for those coastal State people in what the leader just read.

The government does its job.

Mr. President, I think the remarks that were given by my colleague from Montana about Senator Byrd were certainly appropriate, and I know anytime we lose one of our Members who has been sitting with us for so long, there is a void to fill…

Mr. President, I would like to speak in morning business about the National Flood Insurance Program and talk about the importance of extending the National Flood Insurance Program as a tropical storm--that could be a hurricane--is growing…

This is unacceptable, and clearly we need to be looking for ways to prevent this type of action in the future from happening.

We just need to see some more urgency.

Well, Mrs. Anderson and Mrs. Roshto, you have been so compelling, and I appreciate that you have come here to talk about your personal problems with the lack of conformity and understandable laws that would affect your future.

I think you laid out the problem very well, and certainly, from your personal experience, it's clear that there is no intention whatsoever to make it easy to waive the Jones Act in this response.

I would respectfully suggest that maybe on another day we could have a hearing to talk about that more fully.

I don't think we should stop drilling in the Gulf, where we have safely drilled for 40 years.