Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to have a very valuable part of our Republican team here today, a gentlewoman who has taken hundreds of meetings and who has led the way in what, I believe, is to better the circumstance with the National Flood Insurance Program. She is from the Financial Services Committee and is the chairwoman of the Subcommittee on Insurance, Housing and Community Opportunity. I yield 5 minutes to the gentlewoman from Illinois (Mrs. Biggert).
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So it would definitely be designed to have a less powerful not just Speaker, but a less powerful majority. So, it would mean the majority would be like a King with no clothes.
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