Sadly, as is often the case with the Federal Government's treatment of American Samoa, the Northern Mariana Islands, Guam, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands, U.S. citizens and nationals living in the insular areas do not receive the…

I believe that we must work together to protect health care coverage for individuals who like their current health care plans, expand coverage for Americans who still need it, and to bring down health care costs for everyone.

I commend my colleague, Congresswoman Jayapal, for her work and advocacy for her Medicare for All proposal.

And why those states choose to deny their residents coverage is beyond me.

So I reject my colleagues who say that the Affordable Care Act is not meeting its goals.

I support universal access to health care, and I am committed to working with my colleagues to achieve this goal.

There is a tremendous backlog that we hear about with access to citizenship, visas, work visas, family visas, humanitarian visas, all kind of relief.

I cannot stress how important it is to improve mitigation efforts between Federal, State, and local entities.

We all learned in kindergarten that an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, and DRRA is the statutory embodiment of that embroidered pillow on your grandmother's sofa.

So my colleagues and I on the committee are eager to hear about your progress, and we also want you to understand how important it is that the agency take this opportunity to be bold in implementing the changes that are in the law because…

the Nation's infrastructure is crumbling.

I would like to hope that we can work to improve transparency and communication across the Government.

A majority of the Congress is very alarmed at the increasing severity and costs of extreme weather.

With DRRA, Congress has signaled the importance of building resiliency so that Americans in communities impacted by disasters are able to get back up on their feet again with a minimal loss to lives and property.

Absolutely. Thank you for the suggestion.

We will look to you for some assistance with that.

Disaster resilience starts with building codes, because they enhance public safety and property protection.

I mean, for Puerto Rico, it is the biggest amount of funds ever been approved, but we haven't received all of them because of this holdup in the deadline in October.