05/18/2010
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"That funding is critical to keeping insurance affordable for the farming sector, which makes up 1 percent of our Nation's GDP."
"I hope it marks the start of an effort by the Committee to provide a long-term reauthorization and reform of the National Flood Insurance Program."
"I am proud to have worked with the chairman and the ranking member to have been an author of it."
"That's why this subcommittee and this partnership is so important to the security of the Nation."