Jeff Merkley actually said...

Am I correct in believing that if a family has to pay $1,000 more a year in flood insurance, one of the costs, if you will, that is essentially equivalent to dropping the value of the home $20,000 since $1,000 at 5 percent pays for a $20,000 mortgage?

09/17/2013

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