U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez
told the head of the National Flood Insurance Program that he wanted to see changes made before Congress renews it.

Menendez (D-N.J.) told Roy Wright, a deputy associate administrator at the Federal Emergency Management Agency, that he wanted legislation renewing the program to make it more accountable to the people it's supposed to protect.

"In the aftermath of Sandy, I saw firsthand all of the problems with the program and all of the work that needs to be done," Menendez said at a hearing of a Senate Banking Committee subcommittee that oversees the insurance program.

"Sandy was a natural disaster, but the delays, the denials, the disputes they encountered throughout the flood insurance claims process -- that was a manmade disaster."

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