Kendra S. Horn: “It strikes me as unfair that the Federal Government has placed this insurance mandate upon 500,000 constituents from six…”

“It strikes me as unfair that the Federal Government has placed this insurance mandate upon 500,000 constituents from six congressional districts. But FEMA has not made the proper flood plain insurance maps as accurate as possible. However, Mr. Chairman, I feel that before the Government acts, it should make a good-faith effort to use the best information that is available, particularly when good citizens--and many of these citizens are in a lower-economic category--must pay out of their pockets for any mistakes the Government might make. For this reason, I would like to ask the distinguished chairman if funding could be made available to ensure that new maps would be prepared more accurately and reflect the true areas which might be impacted by the 100-year flood event. I would hope that the flood insurance now being imposed would also have a moratorium placed on it until the maps of the flood plain prove to be accurate.”