Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Thanks for holding this oversight hearing of the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
How are you going to overlay these new rules on top of our already strict land-use planning?
The National Flood Insurance Program is critical in many areas.
Most of our development is now, by State law and State and local planning, focused on those downtown core areas, as Cong...
Now, don't you--didn't Biggert-Waters require an advisory committee for mapping?
It appears that we would then begin to model ourselves after the rest of the country.
There are some glimmers of hope and activity there.
So then, arguably, perhaps your agency, in exceeding its authority to follow the directives of National Marine Fisheries...
So in this case we--you are far exceeding the minimum standard approach.
Washington State, where our regional office of NMFS is based, was allowed to go with performance standards, but it is a ...
To come in and say now that a main highway or a parkway in Portland or a pick your street in any of those 232 cities in ...
It seems like one that can bully or overrule you and require you to do things that are beyond your legal authority.
You know, I find this all very extraordinary.
Well, I hope my colleagues from the other 49 United States are listening.
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, first I would like to ask unanimous consent to put three letters in the record.
So many properties now that aren't required to have Federal flood insurance in order to obtain bank financing will be re...
So, large areas, as the mayor of Beaverton mentioned--I was just looking at more maps in Coos Bay, where there has been ...
Yes, but the whole intent of this RPA is not hazards. That is the problem.
