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Booker, the former Newark mayor who serves as the top Democrat on the Senate's surface transportation subcommittee, said in an appearance on NBC's \"Meet the Press\" that while the United States invests just 1.5 percent of its gross domestic product on infrastructure -- such as roads, bridges, transit and water and sewer systems --

Sept. 19--Senators berated the head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency on Wednesday over increases in flood insurance rates that they said are starting to roil real estate markets in coastal states nationwide and making the recovery from Superstorm Sandy more difficult.

The law phases out subsidies for several groups of older properties, including commercial buildings, homes classified as having \"severe repetitive losses\" and any property that has had flood-related damage in which insurance payments equaled or exceeded the fair market value of the structure. Annual premiums paid by New Jersey property owners total about $210 million. Since 1978, the federal program has paid $1.6 billion for New Jersey flood losses, the fifth-highest amount for any state, behind Louisiana, Texas, Florida and Mississippi.