ben mckay.im those are terrific points and questions. raises a couple of issues. number one this idea that these are being sprung on people, folks who bought the house thinking they are not on a floodplain. they were not by the old maps. the new maps come out and they are suddenly in a flood zone, which adds to their monthly expenses. that is a serious problem. we have this technical cocky mapping that will -- tech nical, key mapping that will bring about more of that. it is unfair. congress is trying to look at phasing in new maps or new impacts on anybody who now find themselves in a flood zone. it is a good question. anyone who owns their home is just as vulnerable as someone with a loan, but they do not have the same financial pressure to pay off a bank if the house is gone. the idea of the flood program is to prevent you from that risk of ruin adding to own the mortgage and pay rent -- having to own the mortgage and pay rent as well. that is the public policy behind the program. host: jeff

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. >> ben mckay has been talking about national flood insurance program. thanks for being here. >> thank you, robert. >> thanks to everybody who participated. we will see you again tomorrow morning at 7:00 a.m. eastern. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2011] >> good monday morning. thanks for watching c-span. here's a look at some live programming coming up. starting right now the commission on wartime contract in meeting. their focus is how the pentagon can save money when contract out work. that is live right now on our companion network c-span 2. on c-span we will be live at 12:30 eastern with a discussion on this equation in libya and the impact on the u.s. speakers include former as administration official, from the american enterprise institute. and later today, president obama will address the nation on libya, scheduled for 7:30 eastern. we will have live on c-span along with your phone calls. >> tonight, perspectives on the proposed deal between at&t and t-mobile. an antitrus