Former Nebraska political leaders Doug Bereuter and Chuck Hagel write about how citizens, election officials and congressional leaders need to work together to protect in this and future elections.
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Congress has the opportunity to finally change one of the greatestweaknesses afflicting the National Flood Insurance Program(NFIP). Designed to reduce the cost of major disasters byallowing workers to insure their property against floods, NFIP hasbeen saddled with having to repeatedly pay for rebuilding the samestructures. To make matters worse, most of these structurespay subsidized premiums that come nowhere close to covering thecosts they impose on the program.
Members of Congress need to step across party lines and get to know one another as individuals as they once did, Nebraska s former Democratic senator and former Republican congressman said.