U.S. Rep. Gene Taylor’s proposed Multiple Peril Insurance Act may not be the best way to untangle the knot of problems caused by the way we insure against catastrophe, but it’s worth a hard look, and at first glance appears better than the present situation.Yaller Dog Blog has more praise for Travis Childers. Maybe Yaller Dog should respond to this smack-talk against Childers' pages:
And the bottom line is, if the industry wants to make a free-market argument, it should be lobbying to get flood coverage back into the private sector.
Until it does that, it’s arguments to keep windstorm ring a little false.
The Senate is the upper chamber, the gentleman's debating body. It takes a higher class of Page to refill the cognac in Sen. Jay Rockefeller's crystal flask than to top off the Mr. Pibb in Rep. Travis Childers' Big Gulp cup. It's night and day, really.The U.S. House of Representatives passed Gene Taylor's bill to rename the McLain Post Office after Medal of Honor winner Maj. Ed “Too Tall” Freeman.
Meanwhile Gene Taylor unloads on AIG:
"Bilking American taxpayers is what insurance companies do. Why is anyone surprised?!”Gregg Harper joined ten other Republican congressmen in a letter to the Department of Justice defending Sheriff Joe Arpaio's local illegal immigration enforcement efforts. Bennie Thompson held a hearing regarding possible civil rights violations in local illegal immigration enforcement.
Nancy Pelosi thanked Gene Taylor for his role in reversing the Obama Administration proposal to make veterans pay for their medical treatments with their private insurance first.
Travis Childers announced a $259,613 ARC grant for MSU's Project Smarter.
Bennie Thompson says FEMA is better inside DHS.
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