Our work is not over until we build a better plan, and hopefully, we will lay some Congressional record to do that today.

I am going to hold FEMA accountable for that.

But I am committed, as you all know, as a subcommittee chair of the committee that funds the flood maps, to continue to hold these hearings regularly in hopes that we can have accurate flood maps prior to 2017 when this program has to be…

We have to make decisions about where we build going forward. This is not a sustainable risk we can continue to do with no change.

I am happy to see that it has been established.

This bill included a critical affordability provision, which the Senate insisted on an 18 percent individual annual cap.

We really have to be careful with this.

I find it puzzling, after working so hard to pass a law that specifically caps rate increases and encourages FEMA to strive to keep flood insurance affordable, that we are still hearing about outrageous increases that threaten to do more…

It is my goal to make sure we do not have any more Claudettes or Ricks slipping through the cracks.

I believe it is imperative that Congress remain active and engaged to ensure this agency and its partners have the resources they need.

This is a national issue of the highest priority.

Thank you, Administrator Fugate, for testifying this afternoon. You have one tough job, to implement this program, which is important to the whole Nation.

We have to protect those investments. But we also have to make sure that as we invest in the future, as we rebuild from disasters, we are making investments for future risk, not for old data.

But the law does say very clearly here that it has to be in plain English.

We have to acknowledge we have built infrastructure we own. It is not going to go away anytime soon.

So I want to ask you, what has the President asked in his budget for flood maps?

This is not just a Louisiana, Mississippi, coastal issue. The 450 counties that are most threatened produce 50 percent of the GDP of this Nation.

I am going to really be pushing this subcommittee, the whole Committee on Appropriations, the Committee on Banking, and the Congress to get complete and accurate flood maps done before we engage in trying to rewrite a flood insurance…