The National Flood Insurance Program is a valuable tool in addressing the losses incurred throughout this country due to floods. It assures that businesses and families have access to affordable flood insurance that would not be available on the open market.
Social Security was always supposed to be basically in theory an insurance program where you pay in and then you get out.
The Children's Health Insurance Program has given Democrats a wide-open door for socialized medicine. The door was left open by Republicans, who were in the majority when we passed the original legislation in 1997.
Social Security is a family insurance program, not an investment scheme.
Quite honestly, one of the unavoidable considerations in going exclusive with any company is being put on a company's medical insurance program.
Social Security is a social insurance program - it is not designed to be the same thing as a 401(k).
The National Flood Insurance Program is a voluntary program. If a community really feels that the building insurance requirements are too burdensome, they don't have to participate.
Today more than 20,000 communities participate in the National Flood Insurance Program. More than 90 insurance companies sell and service flood service insurance. There are more than four million policies covering the total of $800 billion.
When we didn't succeed at healthcare reform back in 1993, 1994, I went to work with Democrats and Republicans and we created the Children's Health Insurance Program.
Medicaid and the Child Health Insurance Program are the two most important safety net programs for children.
