Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., grilled insurance executives over their policies that cut disaster payouts in a subcommittee hearing on Tuesday, The Hill reported.

Hawley, chair of the Senate Homeland Security subcommittee, trained a spotlight on executives from Allstate and State Farm for policies that kept disaster funds from Americans who sustained major property damage from the past year’s hurricanes and other natural disasters, according to the report.

“We’re talking about moms who have had to haul 5-gallon buckets of water because the pipes are gone. We’re talking about grandparents who have had to sleep in their cars because there’s no roof over their heads. We’re talking about families who are maxing out their credit cards because their insurance companies won’t pay out any damage claims,” Hawley said in his opening statement, according to the report.

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