ms. maloney. ms. maloney: thank you. first of all, secretary ross is from the great state and city of new york. and i'd like to welcome you here today and thank you for your public service. in your comments, you seem voir dire committed to getting an accurate count, which is mandated in our constitution. but if you look at the spending levels, granted you're just new in this job, but for the census of for 2020, the spending the red line is way behind the prior censuses from 2010, 2000, 1990. secretary ross: can you raise the whole thing? i can't site. maloney: you know what? let's take it down and give him one of these. but this is a chart that we have on it, on the ratio of the census budget to year one of the decade. but in any event, as a businessman, it's hard to achieve the results without spending. so i certainly support your spending requests of $187 million, and i think it's a good start, but i don't think it's good enough. you have a lot to catch up on. several of the dress rehearsals were canceled. the foreign

maloney, ms. velazquez, all concerned about the northeast and the sandy reforms necessary to learn the lessons. we've included those reforms in this bill. i sat down countless hours with the ranking member, she shared her phone number with me, left me at the dance though because before this thing was done she walked away. we tried to get a bipartisan bill. we worked on this thing together. so to say something other than that is not fair, it's not right. we have tried you might not like the end product but we have gone a great distance to get a bill that everybody can agree on. and i think we're going to get that today. i want to talk about a few things. we're $25 billion in debt. a deficit of $1.5 billion a year this program is not sustainable. we have people who are building homes in harm's way. they get flooded. multiple times. the chairman and i saw a homeowner that was flooded three times in 10 years. one homeowner let his house -- left his house to get his kids who were swept away in flood wa

ms. waters: i yield two minutes to the gentlelady from new york, the ranking member of the subcommittee on capital markets on the financial services committee, mrs. maloney. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman is recognized. mrs. maloney: i thank the gentlelady for her leadership. mr. speaker, i rise in opposition to h.r. 2874. there are some good things in this bill, including the zeldin-maloney bill, that would llow policy holders to receive mitigation credit fr boilers and , which chanical sectors is a huge deal for the city of new york and other big cities. but there are too many provisions that would make flood insurance in my district either unavailable or unaffordable. for this reason, the city of new york opposes this bill. the bill would raise premiums on homeowners by increasing the floor on premium increases that congress just set three years ago. currently fema -- to increase premiums by a minimum of 5% per year. under this bill, fema would have to increase premiums by a minimum of 6.5% a year. and when you add up the mandatory increases in premiums required to fund fema's reserve fund and all the other surcharges in the bill, the effect