House Financial Services Chairman Jeb Hensarling
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Hensarling argued in a “Dear Colleague” letter obtained by The Hill that the House should not move forward with another short-term funding bill without reforms to help make the National Flood Insurance Program – which is currently roughly $20 billion in debt – financially sustainable.
In addition to encouraging his colleagues in the House to vote down the funding measure, the Texas Republican has also spoken with a handful of members in the upper chamber about his call to vote down the clean reauthorization. Hensarling said he believes lawmakers should instead take up a short-term bill introduced by Reps. Ed Royce
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"Number one, I've asked for my leadership to bring this bill to the floor. So I've got a fiduciary duty to members and members of my conference, but I oppose the bill. It's going to be the seventh time we have done a short-term reauthorization with zero reforms since the House acted,” he told The Hill.
“So I haven't made a secret of the fact that I'm unhappy because, you know, never underestimate the ability of the Senate to do nothing. So I mean the Senate is going to do what they're going to do. I've made it clear to them I don't support a reauthorization without some minimal reforms.”
The move has created friction between Hensarling and Scalise, who worked with the GOP chairman in November to...