HARRISBURG, Ill.–(ENEWSPF)–April 22, 2014. With FEMA’s metric for disaster assistance still biased heavily against states like Illinois, U.S. Sen. Mark Kirk (R-Ill.) today visited Harrisburg, Ill., the site of the 2012 “Leap Day Tornado,” and laid out the merits of a recently introduced bill to restructure the methodology by which FEMA calculates which disasters merit assistance. Kirk was joined by Harrisburg Mayor Ron Crank, who is supportive of the efforts to reform the FEMA aid…
