But I am committed, as you all know, as a subcommittee chair of the committee that funds the flood maps, to continue to ...
It is my goal to make sure we do not have any more Claudettes or Ricks slipping through the cracks.
I find it puzzling, after working so hard to pass a law that specifically caps rate increases and encourages FEMA to str...
I believe it is imperative that Congress remain active and engaged to ensure this agency and its partners have the resou...
This is a national issue of the highest priority.
Thank you, Administrator Fugate, for testifying this afternoon. You have one tough job, to implement this program, which...
We have to protect those investments. But we also have to make sure that as we invest in the future, as we rebuild from ...
But the law does say very clearly here that it has to be in plain English.
We have to acknowledge we have built infrastructure we own. It is not going to go away anytime soon.
So I want to ask you, what has the President asked in his budget for flood maps?
This is not just a Louisiana, Mississippi, coastal issue. The 450 counties that are most threatened produce 50 percent o...
I am going to really be pushing this subcommittee, the whole Committee on Appropriations, the Committee on Banking, and ...
And let me put up my favorite map again, and ask FEMA, would you please produce a map for Alaska that looks just like th...
The Senators did not believe that the bill needed to be offset. We thought this was an emergency and we voted that way.
this fee is going to drive them out.
it is not a coastal issue. It is not only a coastal issue. It is an interior issue. It is a national issue.
this program, I think people have to get a reset button on this program.
We want to make sure that the rates that people are paying reflect the fact that they aren't living at the flood level.
