mr. neugebauer and mr. hensarling said they had come up with other ways to deal with it. i never saw any of that. nobody ever tried to relate to the fact that i was outreaching to try and get mr. hensarling, mr. neugebauer and others who have a different opinion to come and work this out and do what we could for our constituents. and so i'm very pleased that we had members on the opposite side of the aisle who encysted that their constituents deserve protection, that they deserve support. working with their leadership and mr. cantor, working with our leadership, with the democrats on this side of the aisle, we've come up with something that is extremely important and effective. now, i must say to both sides of the aisle, we have continuing work to do. this is not a permanent fix on this. what i discovered was, none of us know enough about fema. we have been crying for years about remapping. we don't really know how it works.

mr. neugebauer from texas. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from texas is recognized for three minutes. mr. neugebauer: i thank the gentlewoman. mr. speaker, i rise in opposition today to h.r. 3370, the national flood insurance program is in trouble. it is deeply -- it's in deep debt and it's putting taxpayers at risk for another government bailout. the program was added to the g.a.o.'s high-risk list in 2006 and remains there today because of its financial exposure it represents to the american taxpayers. today it's over $24 billion in debt and this number will continue to rise. recognize that congress -- recognizing this, congress passed the biggert-waters act in july of 2012. the act authorized the flood insurance program for five years and included important reforms to get it back on sound financial footing. one of these reforms was the gradual elimination of outdated rate subsidies. in a rare display of bipartisanship, republicans and democrats overwhelmingly supported the notion that risk-based prem