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Shelley Moore Capito: I rise in support of Mr. Roskam's very thoughtful amendment. I feel that it helps to work this bill, which I have…

On the recordNovember 8, 2007
I rise in support of Mr. Roskam's very thoughtful amendment. I feel that it helps to work this bill, which I have obviously voiced some questions about, because it would simply require States to pay their fair share before tapping into a Federal line of credit. This will encourage State funds to handle a predictable level of loss before putting Federal dollars and Federal taxpayers on the hook for what could be billions of dollars in catastrophic loans. Very briefly, I would like to say, without loss requirements, State reinsurance funds will have no incentive to actuarially price their risk since they will be getting cheap loans to assist them in paying their claims. I would like to voice support for the Roskam amendment.
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Shelley Moore Capito
Republican · West Virginia

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Supporting an amendment related to state funding and federal loans during a legislative debate.

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