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06/29/2009
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The people on the inside of the levee should have much lower rates with that levee built than without that levee.
The Senators did not believe that the bill needed to be offset. We thought this was an emergency and we voted that way.
I felt like it was the most fair thing to direct 80 percent of that penalty back to the Gulf where the accident happened...
I was actually shocked when the floodplain managers opposed our efforts to reform Biggert-Waters.