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This bill will give FEMA the needed tools to reduce the number of repetitive loss properties which cost the NFIP about $200 million annually. These properties, while comprising approximately 1 percent of the currently insured properties…
The amendment points to an important subject, the need for prompt implementation of the Act, and we certainly think that the Committee on International Relations and other relevant committees ought to receive periodic reports and hold…
I just wanted to assure the gentlewoman from Ohio, there is nothing that deauthorizes a program in our legislation and nothing that specifically authorizes additional funds. And to the gentleman from California, this legislation does not…
The gentleman from Florida has already pointed out the problems that this creates for the other committees of this Congress, that they should have some input in the preparation of a conference report.
We found that the technology in the office of the Export-Import Bank was very obsolete. They recognized that fact but they have not spent enough money to improve it. If we make that situation better, small business is going to have better…
Our corporations are involved in producing very different types of exports. One of their operations in the United States may face the fact that a product is obsolete or the whole sector has deteriorated, and we are not exporting anything…
Certainly I am not enthused about it, but to the extent that GE can keep jobs here because of export, those are jobs that are left in New York State.
I expect to support and urge support for the gentlewoman's amendment that has been made in order, and to strengthen provisions of her amendment by the report language.
I must hedge my answer. As I told the gentleman, I am not at all reluctant to have that issue voted on, as the gentleman suggested, and as we had originally described it. I am concerned about a wide-open rule. So perhaps the gentleman, if…
This legislation, the Homestead National Monument of America Additions Act, is a straightforward bill. It is also noncontroversial. The bill would simply adjust the boundaries of Homestead National Monument of America and allow a small…
Yes, it does, Mr. Chairman. Section 16 of H.R. 2507 requires the Export-Import Bank to reassess its adverse economic impact test as a result of the $18 million Ex-Im Bank loan guarantee to the Benxi Iron & Steel Company and specifically…