We can do a lot better with fewer, clearer and more efficient programs which would enable families to get back into bett...
We will get it for you. Don't worry.
I want to underscore that, under the law, when FEMA's bucket gets low, the only thing they can do is stop ongoing recove...
Smarter designs, better materials can withstand some of these storms up to 150, sometimes 200-mile-an-hour winds.
I encourage FEMA to extend temporary assistance to 120 days and eliminate that worry for families.
I look forward to working with the subcommittee and FEMA to provide the highest level of assistance to the many people w...
President Obama signed the Executive order creating the Hurricane Sandy Rebuilding Task Force on December 7, 2012.
So your annual budget is $82 million, and you have $291 million in damage.
I could spend $1.6 billion in Louisiana alone on actual Army Corps of Engineers projects that must be done to mitigate a...
The Federal Government has $1.6 billion for the entire country for new construction for the Army Corps of Engineers.
And you can also, for new building, we have a lot of slabs that were built that should not have been built, but they wer...
I am going to commit right now to have a hearing in a short period of time.
We have a $40 billion backlog--$40 billion--of which your project was one of those backlogs.
Thirteen years ago, there was a project for $89 million that was authorized. Had it been funded, you would have saved yo...
the last thing I want to see in America is that the only people who can live within a few blocks of the beach are people...
Why would we spend $50,000 for a hotel bill for this family? What if you took that $50,000 and put it with the insurance...
We have to be better prepared for the next storm . . . and rebuild not just better . . . but smarter . . . and more resi...
It is just imperative for us to really push forward to get particularly these small businesses back up and running.
