U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), chair of the Sandy Task Force and leading voice for reform to the National Flood Insurance Program, on May 18 pressed expert witnesses during a Banking Committee hearing on the need to make the program more affordable, to revamp a broken claims process that left many Superstorm Sandy survivors holding the bag, and to invest more in mitigation efforts to reduce risk and the ultimate cost to rebuild after a flood.
Menendez questioned what he called the lack of transparency in the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s new effort to…
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