Excerpt from National Flood Insurance Reform Act of 1993-S. 1405: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Housing and Urban Affairs of the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, United States Senate; One Hundred Third Congress, First Session on S. 1405; September 14 and 15, 1993 Senator kerry. This hearing of the Subcommittee on Housing and Urban Affairs will come to order. I wish it were otherwise, but we seem to be presented with our own sort of Congressional disaster today, other than national disas ters, and it certainly does not amount to that level, though for some, depending on what we vote on, it may well, but we have back-to-back votes, 13 of them, starting around p.m. The first vote will be 15 minutes, and each subsequent vote is going to be 10 minutes, which means we have about 2 hours of 10-minute votes. Obviously our capacity to conduct a hearing that is intelligible, let alone even physically able to conduct it, to get back here and ask one question and then race back is just going to be physically impossible. So we need to roll with the punch. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.