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Lawmakers push to delay huge flood insurance hikes

By Andrew Taylor
Published October 29, 2013 9:07pm ET
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Lawmakers push to delay huge flood insurance hikes
WASHINGTON (AP) — A bipartisan group of lawmakers Tuesday unveiled legislation that would delay for about four years several changes to the federal government’s flood insurance program that are threatening to sock thousands of people with unaffordable premium hikes. The move comes as the government is beginning to implement a significant overhaul of the much-criticized […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — A bipartisan group of lawmakers Tuesday unveiled legislation that would delay for about four years several changes to the federal government’s flood insurance program that are threatening to sock thousands of people with unaffordable premium hikes.

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