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By Dujon Ricks
Assemblywoman Stacey Pheffer Amato (c.) joins a group of
Superstorm Sandy survivors on the 5th anniversary of the storm to advocate for
victims of recent hurricanes.
To mark the fifth anniversary of Superstorm Sandy Sunday in
Broad Channel, state Assemblywoman Stacey Pheffer Amato (D-Rockaway Beach) and
a working group she convened presented a list of 12 legislative recommendations
to strengthen the National Flood Insurance Program, which is slated to be
reauthorized by Congress this month.
Amato Pheffer believes that Hurricanes Harvey, Irene and
Maria shifted the national conversation on the federal response and that the
working group’s five years of boots-on-the ground experience with Sandy and the
still uncompleted rebuilding in its aftermath could make a valuable
contribution to the process.
