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Would you support an extension of Stafford Act language so that it is not only bringing resilience to those things that are considered emergency...

It seems that it is not the most efficient use of funding.

The insular areas have long had underfunding and under inclusion across a litany of programs.

Until then, public schooling for the children of the Virgin Islands is operating on 4-hour rotations.

Progress has been made, but despite best collective efforts, the territory has not physically been able to finish all of these projects by March 15 deadline.

Recovery is far from over and the rebuilding has yet to begin.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. We have been talking quite a bit about infrastructure, and in my opening statement I discussed the President's infrastructure plan with a budget cut of $122 billion from the highway trust fund.

We can all agree that environmental protection should go hand-in-hand with economic development.

I think there needs to be a serious look from our level as to whether or not we need to continue having regional offices that are in Puerto Rico for the Virgin Islands.

I've just got to tell you that we will be here as long as it takes in order to be able to get this place put back together again and be more resilient in the future. And I'm committed to do whatever I can in order to be able to help.

Please don't think that that means that I don't recognize the tremendous work and the amount of hours that you all put in.

What can we do as the Federal Government and the local government working together to ensure that people who are living in homes that look like this don't have to go into the 2018 Hurricane Season like this?

So I guess the reason I'm asking this question is I'm concerned about those homes that still appear to be extremely damaged.

So if you are putting temporary housing and you are putting a temporary blue roof on a home at 25,000, then you are saying to permanently fix the roof at 25,000 does that seem like a reasonable amount for a roof?

But the Virgin Islands Government, Governor Mapp, did not go into the contract negotiations until he knew that Brock Long had agreed to begin the reimbursement at a reasonable amount for each one of those homes; is that correct?

Why would you expend the money for the program if you didn't think that the Federal Government was going to reimburse you for it, which is how the STEP program works?

Mr. Vogel, would that be through you, FEMA, that the Rapid Repair Program is now being initiated rather than--and that's supposed to be rather than having creating temporary housing, you repaired the homes that are in place already…

Because in the testimony I have from Miss Enwright, who is with St. John with Love City Strong and others, she discusses in her testimony that it took at least three days before they were able to see the Navy and others come after Irma.