Belleville News-Democrat
June 29, 2012
By Mike Fitzgerald

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The metro-east’s federal lawmakers helped defeat a measure Friday to require owners of homes and businesses — including those in the American Bottoms — behind structurally sound levees to buy flood insurance.

U.S. Rep. Jerry Costello, D-Belleville, teamed with U.S. Rep. John Shimkus, R-Collinsville, and U.S. Sens. Dick Durbin, D-Springfield, and Mark Kirk, R-Highland Park, to reject the measure…more

 

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