05/19/2009
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"Alaska will take up half of the geographic space of the lower 48, and it deserves its own map."
"This isn't just a problem for the 7 percent or the 450 counties, it is not just coastal issue, it is an interior issue, and it is a national issue."
"We also removed the property sales trigger, which had frozen real estate markets and threatened to rob many middle-class families."
"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 prio..."