I agree wholeheartedly with Chief Kidd that the assistance that we were requesting was being provided from a response pe...
The lack of immediate response from these aircraft assets caused significant delays in fighting the fires in Bastrop Cou...
I first would like to thank my good friend, Congressman Henry Cuellar, for agreeing to be the Ranking Member of this com...
Texas has been the epicenter of a great natural disaster this year.
What happened in Texas this year is inexcusable and unacceptable.
we did pass, you know, a short-term continuing resolution, which does fund FEMA. It's a clean funding bill, which I supp...
FEMA must also change its defined jurisdictions for declarations.
We've got to cut the Federal Government. The Federal Government is getting in our way.
I think it's outdated. The Stafford Act, which governs disaster response, recognizes that the States and local communiti...
The State of Texas remains to be a tinderbox, and I think it's very foreseeable, as it has been this past year, that we'...
What happened in Texas is inexcusable and unacceptable.
I think that it should be done more efficiently and not take 3 years to do that.
I do think that we should have had more in terms of aviation assets pre-positioned.
I believe the fire starts Sunday night. Monday, we're out there. Wednesday, they arrive from California.
I don't know how they--how it survived the fire, but it certainly--it demonstrated a lot to me, that we are going to pre...
Let me echo your sentiments about the local volunteer firefighters. They really were the heroes of this story.
I'll be the first one to say we need to do a lot more.
An emergency should be taken care of instead of having a Washington debate as to how we pay for this.
