I feel so strongly that the financial burden of providing the data that would lead to the most accurate possible flood m...
To help communities tap into that funding source, because for a community to have to spend tens of thousands of dollars ...
I just don't sense an element of urgency in this process.
It just seems we must move heaven and earth, literally, to get this done in a way that is commiserate with the level of ...
Yes, I understand your frustration. We've heard from others in that regard, and it's unfortunate that there hasn't been,...
I want to see specific action in that area as well.
I want to give you another example of an area that this Committee identified first in June 2008, again in 2009, and agai...
Well, it was a huge issue at the time: trying to determine the true flow rate. That could have made a huge difference in...
When you think about the lethargic response to this by the Federal Government, it is stunning, frankly.
the corporate interests are not necessarily the public's interest.
This really is a crisis of epic proportion for this country. So what's at stake is the public interest now.
One of my frustrations with the Department and, frankly, with the Bottom-Up Review is that there are longstanding proble...
The Department's budget request for the cybersecurity division for fiscal year 2011 is $19 million less than it was fund...
I think that, again, it sounds like a massive bureaucracy and not at the level that's commensurate with the catastrophe ...
Do you agree that the Department needs new authorities and resources to perform its cybersecurity mission?
Yes, thank you. Mr. Helton, did NOAA have any contingency plans in place with respect to a response to an oil spill in t...
And was one developed since Exxon Valdez in that sense of with the use of chemical dispersants?
It is hard to imagine with so many that some of them were not, and I think we have to face that problem and deal with it...
