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Dana Rohrabacher: I yield myself my final 30 seconds. Mr. Chairman, let me just note we have a chance to undo a grave injustice here. Some…

On the recordJune 27, 2006
I yield myself my final 30 seconds. Mr. Chairman, let me just note we have a chance to undo a grave injustice here. Some people, yes, have large homes. Some people have small homes who have been done this injustice. It is wrong, it is unjust to take money from people and force them into a flood insurance program when they had bought their property based on totally different circumstances and we have changed the circumstances on them. This is not fair. We have a chance to rectify it now. We can sit here and argue what budget it should come out of. That doesn't do them any good. We need to try to rectify the situation for hundreds of homes in my area where the homeowners bought property knowing that it was not under flood risk, and we, through our actions, put them in jeopardy.
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Dana Rohrabacher
Republican · California

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