[StBernard] Subcommittee To Examine Legislative Reforms to National Flood Insurance Program

[Westley Annis]

Subcommittee To Examine Legislative Reforms to National Flood Insurance
Program

 

Washington, DC - Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA), chairwoman of the House
Financial Services Subcommittee on Housing and Community Opportunity,
announced that the subcommittee will hold a hearing to examine legislative
proposals to improve the National Flood Insurance Program. The hearing will
focus on a legislative reform package drafted by the Chairwoman that would
reauthorize the program for 5 years, delay the implementation of new rate
maps, phase-in actuarial rates, and provide other resources for homeowners
and communities. The hearing will also examine legislation authored by Rep.
Gene Taylor to add wind insurance to the flood insurance program.

 

Testifying will be several Members of Congress with an interest in flood
insurance issues.  Other witnesses will include officials from the Federal
Emergency Management Administration - which administers the flood insurance
program - and the Government Accountability Office, real estate
professionals, representatives of insurance companies, flood plain managers,
environmentalists, and others.  

 

 

 

Who:               House Committee on Financial Services, Subcommittee on
Housing and Community Opportunity

What:             Hearing on "Legislative Proposals to Reform the National
Flood Insurance Program"

When:            Wednesday, April 21, 2010

2:00 PM

Where:           2128 Rayburn House Office Building

 

 

 

Witness List:

 

Panel One:

*                    The Honorable Jerry F. Costello, Member of Congress 

*                    The Honorable Doris O. Matsui, Member of Congress 

*                    The Honorable Steve Scalise, Member of Congress 

*                    The Honorable Gene Taylor, Member of Congress 

 

Panel Two:

*                    The Honorable Craig Fugate, Administrator, Federal
Emergency Management Administration 

*                    Ms. Orice Williams Brown, Director, Financial Markets
and Community Investment, U.S. Government Accountability Office 

 
Panel Three:

*                    Mr. David R. Conrad, Senior Water Resources Specialist,
National Wildlife Federation 

*                    Mr. Mark Davey, President and Chief Executive Officer,
Fidelity National Financial Specialty Insurance Group on behalf of the Write
Your Own Coalition 

*                    Mr. Larry Larson, Executive Director, Association of
State Flood Plain Managers 

*                    Mr. John Rollins, President, Rollins Analytics, Inc. 

*                    Mr. Barry Rutenberg, Second Vice Chairman of the Board,
National Association of Homebuilders 

*                    Mr. Maurice Veissi, Veissi & Associates, First Vice
President,  National Association of REALTORS 

 

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