Richard Shelby actually said...

"In the Flood Insurance Program as we currently have, and we keep kicking the can down the road, it is basically, one, broken, and it is very flawed, is it not?"

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

"You state that requiring communities with a flood control structure to first purchase flood insurance raises, quote, 'real and powerful equity and fairness issues.'"

"That would be my goal."