NU Online News Service, Dec. 14, 2:53 p.m. EST

The House last night passed a five-year National Flood Insurance Program extension as part of a larger, controversial bill extending some tax cuts while also seeking budget cuts.

House Republicans tucked the House version of a long-term NFIP extension, which had already been passed in July, into the “Middle Class Tax Relief & Job Creation Act of 2011,” which passed last night by a 234-193 vote mostly along party lines.

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