we re still providing flood insurance for people who build in a flood zone. we shouldn t be doing that. we just reauthorized it and punted again. flood insurance, one simple answer, why don t we stop writing insurance for people. let the private sector insure it. if they don t, why is the public insuring it? it s interesting, because there s a very strong consensus in the national security community that climate change is real. this is sort of a pragmatic clear-eyed view, and for the military they see this as leading to a change in their mission, more humanitarian assistance, disaster relief missions abroad and at home. they see the melting of the ice cap in the arctic. that s going to open an area of strategic competition with both russia and china. this just i don t want to gloss over that, so here we are worried about what the melting ice caps are going to do to our life. meanwhile, it s going to become a military fight. absolutely.
understand. what side are you on? you support paul ryan s version of this. do you think that will survive? i think it will. they will be some tweaks and changes and i think we are always open to negotiating stuff like that. that is really important, when you try to figure out in an imperfect process like legislating, how do we get to the final product. listening to your prior gas, a friend of mine, talking about, we are willing to work with the president. when he created obamacare, you weren t willing to work with us in the first place. now, we need to fix it and bring competition, lower people s premiums, give them an option, half of the counties in my district, the 16th of illinois, only have one option for illinois. in many cases, it is like writing insurance on a piece of paper and handing it to somebody because they have to spend 30 grand before they see their first benefit from having it. we have to fix this and we will do our best to get there. martha: what do you say to you
unfortunately, a lot of this is done on a state-by-state basis. i know that in california, there has been a bill passed up in the legislature that will say if you will not do children-only policies henceforth, then for five years, you would be barred from writing insurance in the state. so, i don t know whether schwarzenegger, governor schwarzenegger will sign that but certainly something californians have out there i think the bigger thing is, yes, the address of yes, we could come back to the congress, and we could try to fix or mend this law in that way. but y all know that we re in the middle of election, so that s not going to get done. so what is the redress? what is it that we can do? so, obviously, one of those things is when we do set up these exchanges in three years, we re going to get on choose. we re going to have a commission that s going to get to choose what policies are put in there. certainly, i would call a
loopholes or really not go to the intent of our law. unfortunately, a lot of this is done on a state-by-state basis. i know that in california, there has been a bill passed up in the legislature that will say if you will not do children-only policies henceforth, then for five years, you would be barred from writing insurance in the state. so, i don t know whether schwarzenegger, governor schwarzenegger will sign that but certainly something californians have out there i think the bigger thing is, yes, the address of yes, we could come back to the congress, and we could try to fix or mend this law in that way. but y all know that we re in the middle of election, so that s not going to get done. so what is the redress? what is it that we can do? so, obviously, one of those things is when we do set up these exchanges in three years, we re going to get on choose. we re going to have a commission that s going to get to choose
business to foreswear writing insurance on any companies doing business in iran, and let me say with respect to the more than a thousand insurance companies that have given up there might be practicality in their virtue as well and may not as of now be writing insurance on companies doing business with iran and is easy to say we will not do it in the future. gregg: do you think the administration is pretending to do something about the nuclear weapons program which of course the iranians pretend doesn t exist? i think, they are going through the motion, and i think the obama administration has concluded that it s not going to get a very effective sanctions resolution, a fourth resolution from the security council. i think, iran will find other ways to mitigate the effect of the sanction and i m very much concerned that the obama administration s plan b is to accept the nuclear iran and i think that will be dangerous in the region and around the world. gregg: the bush administrati