Thank you. Again, I want to thank you all for being here.
Before the lawsuit, the court determined that FEMA was not following due process, whatever that might mean in this circu...
This is not going to work, and what is going to happen is something is going to fall between the cracks.
It seems like every time you turn on the TV or hear the news it is getting a little bit worse.
But have you done any analysis of how much it actually costs to try to collect?
We would like to look at that, and maybe if we can work through the process maybe we can develop some legislation on it.
OK. So having floods in, say, North Dakota or something is one thing. Do you think these the new procedures--will stand ...
I think it cost them something like a million dollars a week just to maintain.
If they go through the appeal process, do they still have to pay interest on the full amount that they have to pay?
Just human nature being what it is, you are going to have some fraud here.
OK. Well, we will work on that, and we will see if we can come up with some better language and a better Section 312.
At any point does either FEMA or the Department of Treasury turn this over to a debt collector, or is this all done by t...
It needs to be rewritten.
I think it would be tremendously helpful for the government to give very specific, clear notice of what Congress's inten...
To me, when I hear numbers like that, it sounds like we have a chronic problem.
I do not think they are there yet, and I do not know if there is a ready State when FEMA is going to be there.
They overbought. We saw the memo that says 'buy.' We never saw the memo that says 'stop buying.'
Do you have a sense of how much it costs the government to try to recoup this money?
