[Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 125 (Wednesday, July 25, 2018)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E1071]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




      THE AMERICAN LEGION 100TH ANNIVERSARY COMMEMORATIVE COIN ACT

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                               speech of

                          HON. EARL BLUMENAUER

                               of oregon

                    in the house of representatives

                         Tuesday, July 24, 2018

  Mr. BLUMENAUER. Mr. Speaker, today I will vote against the 39th short 
term extension of the National Flood Insurance Program that did not 
provide any reform whatsoever.
  I've been working to improve the flood insurance program for over 20 
years. The current program is ever deeper in debt, does not provide the 
right incentives to move people out of harm's way, and misses an 
opportunity for at least a small set of incremental improvements to 
save money and make America's families and businesses safer.
  I know this extension will pass but I want to register in the 
strongest possible terms my insistence that we get on with the business 
of having a sustainable safe flood insurance program that is so 
important to so many Americans. The time to start this is now and this 
short-term extension fails that test.

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