Our problem was we had no tools to say what these impacts looked like and then go, well, what should we be building to?
In 2012, as we were getting ready to go to New Jersey for the infamous non-hug with Governor Christie with President Oba...
It doesn't make sense. It doesn't. And, obviously, not thoughtful policy has been progressed by this House within the la...
I also caution that it needs to be means-tested because we have a lot of people who don't live on the coast...
You have got to integrate an offense and a defense strategy into the Flood Insurance Program.
We all agree that our coastal communities are more vulnerable.
How are we going to move in a direction of resiliency when we made so much progress last year with the Disaster Recovery...
We need to make sure that we are being thoughtful and that all the policies of this Congress are continuing to move.
This is an area where we should all be working together. This isn't a fight over who is right, who is wrong.
I supported the intention of it, but I think it was the right move to withdraw and think a little bit more about how to ...
No matter what we do with emissions, we are going to continue to see our seas rise and our coastal communities being mor...
We have got to get good at resilient living.
I think that is highly offensive, whether it is due process or not, as a technical matter.
At the end of the day, we all want the same thing--strong, resilient and affordable infrastructure that can protect resi...
It doesn't make sense and it is contrary to what this committee has been doing.
We have a $100 billion backlog.
I couldn't agree more. Last Congress we passed the Disaster Recovery Reform Act where, for the first time, we actually e...
Unfortunately if you don't give time-sensitive funding to these projects, many of them will just slip by the wayside.
