04/02/2014
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"I have heard mention of the 100-year level of protection and the 100-year flood and how it is portrayed on the maps."
"Thank you for working on this issue as diligently as you have been."
"The taxpayers, State, local, Federal taxpayers, have invested something like $32 billion, or maybe more, in that levee system."
"So here you have the problem of people paying their levee taxes... and then also having to pay flood insurance."