Richard Shelby actually said...

"Now, if you are not going to charge for the risk, who is going to be charged for the risk?"

"The National Flood Insurance Program was established in 1968 and was designed to reduce the burden on taxpayers stemming from Federal disaster relief for floods."

"Is part of the problem... the lack of information that they are really in a floodplain area or marginal area?"

"What happened to the mapping program that was going to go on just a few years ago and everybody was talking about?"