Louie Gohmert: “I do appreciate the efforts of my friend from the district that adjoins mine in Texas. He has done a yeoman's work, much…”

“I do appreciate the efforts of my friend from the district that adjoins mine in Texas. He has done a yeoman's work, much of which he hasn't gotten adequate credit for. Hopefully not only the Senate, but the House will respect the work that has been done--including on flood insurance--and stop putting off what Financial Services has done to reform flood insurance. We have extension after extension when the people whose homes are protected are begging for reforms so they can take their insurance money and build somewhere else instead of being forced to build where their house was destroyed. Or how about people who have $50,000 homes having to pay enough in insurance so they insure the multimillion-dollar castles that have been built? They want to make the poor folks pay for the rich folks, and it seems like today most rich folks are Democrats when you look at contributions in recent years. Regardless of what party they are a part of, it is not fair. There are just so many reforms. Or how about if the Federal Government insurance program pays for the same house three times after it is destroyed, then they get their own insurance, not government? There are so many brilliant, yet seem pretty basic, reforms that Chairman Hensarling and his committee have pushed forward. None of them was my idea, but you can read them and go: Oh, that is a really good idea. It is a basic idea.…”