mr. keating. the speaker pro tempore: two minutes for the gentleman from massachusetts. mr. keating: i heard the gentleman from texas say, and i appreciate his intensity, that he believes there's a flawed insurance policy that is government-sponsored and if that's the case it should be delayed. and he was willing to shut down government to do it. i want to talk about something that's a flawed government insurance plan that's scientifically proven to be wrong. no debate about it. and that should be delayed too. i have a family in my hometown in massachusetts that just bought a house. they bought it for $240,000. they had a $400 bill, the predecessors did, for flood insurance. they were shocked, i was shocked, that bill is now increased to $44,000 a year. $44,000 a year. if you take away the value of their home in about two or three years of payments for flood insurance at that rate, it's the whole value of their home. now, i want to also tell you that it's a government taking, in effect, to have this policy in effect. because if they go to sell that home, and someone has to ge

. >> governor keating? >> mr. secretary, demographics are destiny. both of us who served on the onenici panel at the bpc, both sides of the issue, tax policy, regulatory policy, and the like, were stunned at what is coming. once again of the cliff, it is a chasm in terms of the next 15, 20 years in terms of debt and deficit. in part, on occasion, caused by a very good thing, that we are living a lot longer. how do we address that, and what are your thoughts on this very serious future challenge in the debt deficit categories? >> we look at demographics in the united states, and they are much more positive than in other parts of the world. we have more young workers than other countries do, we have the ability to grow with immigration reform, and we have a history of growing our population by being a magnet people who want a better life. and to build our economy. when you look at these long-term trends, there is a need for bipartisan discussion about how we can deal with some of these , fair way. balanced that is how we have made progress -- social se

. >> governor keating. >> mr. secretary, demographics are destiny and those of us who served on the ripple in them in japan here the bpc, on both sides of the issue -- domenici-rivlin, we were stunned at what's coming. the cliff once we get over that, it's a chasm in terms of the next 10, 15, 20 years, in terms of debt and deficit in part, education, caused by very good thing to we are living a lot longer. how do we address that? what are your thoughts about that very sees future challenge in the debt and deficit categories? >> when you look at the demographics in the united states, our demographics are likely much more positive than demographics in other parts of the world. we have more young workers in other countries do. we have the ability to grow, and as a mentioned a moment ago, we have immigration reform. we have a history of growing our population by being a magnet for people who want to have a better life and want to build our economy. when you look at these long-term trends as the president has said many

. >> governor keating. >> mr. secretary, demographics are a destiny and those of us who served on the rivlin-domenici panel here at the b.p.c., both sides of the issue, stunned at what's coming. the cliff, once we get over there, is a chasm in terms of the next 10, 15, 20 years in terms of debt and deficit in part caused by a very good thing. we're living a lot longer. how do we address that? what are your thoughts about that very serious challenge in the debt-deficit category? >> when you look at demographics in the united states, our demographics are much more positive than other parts of the world. we have more young workers than other countries do. we have the ability to grow and as i mentioned a moment ago with immigration reform, we have a history of growing our population by being a magnet for people who want a better life and to build our economy. i think when you look at these long-term trends, as the president said many times, there's a need for bipartisan discussions about how we can deal with some of t

governor keating. see mr.demographics are a destiny and those of us who served on the domenici panel here at the bpc on both sides of the issue, tax policy and regulatory policy were stunned at what's coming. the cliff once we get over that, it's a chasm in terms of 10, 15 or 20 years in terms of debt and deficit in part caused by a very good thing. we are living a lot longer. how do we address that and what are your thoughts about that serious future challenge in the debt and deficit? >> first of all when you look at the demographics in the united states are demographics are more positive than the democrats -- demographics and other parts of the world. we have young workers -- more young workers in other countries do and we have the ability to grow and as i mentioned a moment ago immigration reform in the history of growing our population for people who want a better life than to build our economy. i think when you look at these long-term long-term trends as the president said many times there's a need for bi

mr. engel: i rise in support of res. 447, a resolution i authored supporting the people of the ukraine. i would like to thank my original co-sponsors, chairman ed royce and representatives keating, marcy kaptur, sandy levin and representative gerlbling, for their bipartisan help in crafting this legislation and i thank my friend from new jersey, mr. smith, for his remarks and agree with everything he said. the united states has been a staunch supporter of the democratic, prosperous and sovereign ukraine. at this moment, we must stand with the people of ukraine more than ever before. as the world has watched over the past several months, hundreds of thousands of ordinary ukrainian citizens have turned out to exercise their democratic rights and express their views. the initial impetus for the demonstration was the unexpect red jackson of an offer from the european union for closer political and economic ties. this rejection represented a reversal of government policy and in the view of a great many ukrainians, a lost opportunity for ukraine to strengthen democratic institutions and values and increase economic opportunities. in addition, the demonstrators that turned out not onl