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ChampionedFlood Insurance / Disaster

Committed to reform the National Flood Insurance Program through bipartisan legislation to make the program affordable, accountable, and sustainable.

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ChampionedFact-checker reviewConfidence: 84%

Verified: Cassidy demonstrably LED bipartisan NFIP reform, not merely voted for it. Two PRIMARY Senate press releases confirm he is a lead co-author/co-introducer of the comprehensive, bipartisan and bicameral National Flood Insurance Program Reauthorization and Reform Act (the NFIP-RE Act, reintroduced across Congresses), named among the three lead introducers alongside Van Hollen and Menendez and first among the introducers in the Cassidy-office release. The bill mirrors the promise's three pillars: affordability (caps annual premium increases at 9%, means-tested vouchers for low/middle-income policyholders and renters), accountability (new oversight of insurers/vendors, FEMA authority to terminate contractors), and sustainability (freezes/forbears NFIP debt interest and reinvests up to ~$620M into mitigation). This is authorship/leadership well beyond a vote, satisfying CHAMPIONED. It is not FULL because the comprehensive reform has not been enacted into law — NFIP continues on short-term extensions — but the promise was a commitment to pursue bipartisan reform legislation toward those goals, which he authored and repeatedly drove.

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