Sean Duffy: “I want to thank Chairman Hensarling for all his good and relentless hard work on this bill. I appreciate his tenacity. I…”

“I want to thank Chairman Hensarling for all his good and relentless hard work on this bill. I appreciate his tenacity. I want to thank Mr. Blumenauer for the comments that he just made. The two of us had not worked together on a lot of issues, but this is one we saw eye-to-eye, and, through flood, I think we have seen a lot of common ground and built a friendship together. I actually promised I was going to wear a bike today, and I haven't kept my promise. Later today, I will wear that for Mr. Blumenauer. But I want to talk about the debate we have had here today. This has been an effort at bipartisanship. On the Republican side, I have worked with Representatives Graves and Scalise and Zeldin and King and LoBiondo and MacArthur trying to bring in their concerns to this legislation. On the Democrat side, I have worked with Mr. Scott; I have worked with Mrs. Maloney, Ms. Velazquez, all concerned about the Northeast and the Sandy reforms that were necessary to learn the lessons. We have included those reforms in this bill. I sat down countless hours with the ranking member. She shared her phone number with me. She left me at the dance though, because before this thing was done, she walked away. We tried to get a bipartisan bill. We worked on this thing together; so to say something other than that is just not fair, it is not right. We have tried.…”