This is one way to reduce those costs. We should encourage State and local efforts in the mitigation area.

I think that is very important.

I share Chairman Hoeven's concern about the administration's request of $40.5 billion, which really reduces funding for the Department's operations in 2017.

And certainly I agree that that is an area that we need to support.

I share concerns about a number of the issues that Chairman Hoeven has raised.

The funding that was awarded in 2016, my understanding is that it is not actually going to be out in communities and be disbursed until the end of the year at the earliest.

I am concerned about the reductions in the budget for FEMA's State and local grant programs.

I was also very pleased to see the Department's continued efforts on countering violent extremism (CVE).

One of the things that for many of those small businesses that has been very helpful has been their ability to be more energy efficient.

We are losing a person a day in New Hampshire from overdose deaths, this is about three times as many people as who die in traffic accidents in New Hampshire.

We need funding. I would ask any of you just to comment on the shortage we have of treatment, with the overwhelming needs for treatment.

When you say the services feasible----

You will see our Commission over the years I have been on it, depending on the leadership, depending on the state, it has everything to do with its effectiveness.

So like a lot of things, leadership really matters.

Not everyone wants to sit in the traffic either.

I think it would be reasonable for this committee... to put forward language that does not put every small ground fisherman in my state and the New England States out of business.

I cannot believe that we would have a system where we are going to put iconic fishermen out of business.

But why can we not fund the $3.78 million of monitoring so they do not go altogether out of business?