Flood programme reform process kicks off in Congress

Opening the US flood risk market to wider participation by insurers
won bipartisan support in the last Congress and lawmakers are
looking for similar success this year while a deeper struggle over
reforming the debt-mired National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP)
began today in the House of Representatives.
Representatives Dennis Ross and Kathy Castor of Florida and
Senators Dean Heller of Nevada and Jon Tester of Montana
reintroduced bills in the House and Senate on Wednesday that would
make it e