When the Senate passed the farm bill this month, lawmakers quietly tacked on a multibillion-dollar provision to extend the nation’s troubled federal flood insurance program after Congress failed to reform it after a year-long effort.

The extension, authored by Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., reauthorizes the program until the end of January and will keep it up and running through the most intensive part of the hurricane season, which lasts until Nov. 1.

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