We are not asking the Federal Government to come up with a new regime of data collection, are we, in your proposal?
If there is a levee, surely the property owner should get some reduced premium because that levee is there.
It needs to be addressed in any reauthorization.
Senator Wicker's COASTAL Act asks the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration to form partnerships with pr...
Senator Wicker recently introduced the COASTAL Act, (S. 1091), which proposes a new approach to adjusting total losses.
Hurricane Katrina clearly demonstrated both the devastating power of hurricanes as well as the havoc they can wreak on h...
This does not make FEMA do it. It gives FEMA the ability to engage whomever they choose to do it.
I think you would concede that the current program does not work when it comes to the wind versus water claims in a slab...
That is not the way the Flood Insurance Program works, and I am mystified as to why banks and NFIP do not work together ...
I believe that a Standardized Loss Allocation model as Senator Wicker's COASTAL Act envisions is such a solution.
This is the approach that Senator Wicker's bill takes and it is one I believe that the Committee should take care to con...
We share Senator Wicker's goal of ensuring timely and fair claims payments to victims of natural disasters.
We have some serious decisions that we have to make relative to the kind of appropriations and numbers that we are going...
Madam Chair, thank you for chairing this important hearing.
We appreciate the dedication and the serious approach that you have taken to trying to deal with and help recover from t...
Just because you had one last year does not mean you are not going to have one this year.
The killing of Osama bin Laden, without a doubt, made the United States, in particular, and the entire world, in general...
Thank you, Chairman McCaul, for convening this hearing. I would also like to thank our witnesses for their participation...
