What is the barrier for entrepreneurs stepping into this gap? It just seems like it is a dysfunctional market.
So if I am somebody at risk for this challenge of my throat closing down and I am unable to breathe, then I would suffoc...
You have authority in cases where there is market dysfunction to prioritize applications. Is that correct?
But in this case, what is being recommended for Oregon, which is going to require a regulatory change which will apply n...
I appreciate the thrust of the hearing to be able to get into some of the details, not only because how serious the defi...
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.
