We cannot turn the Agency into a political game. Instead, we must ensure FEMA and its workers have the resources, respect, and public confidence they need to continue their work.

Survivors, in my opinion, deserve not only to heal, but to thrive, and this law moves us closer to that.

Would it be better, would it be more efficient if we looked at a...broader disaster insurance program?

Now, my district, the Massachusetts 7th, relies heavily on FEMA in times of crisis.

We are going to have to fight to protect our Federal employees against what we know is going to be an active purge.

We seem to keep falling behind with these 1-year, I think it is called as-needed funding.

Attempts by Republicans to question the integrity of FEMA workers is a direct attack on FEMA's mission.

When we focus on healing, that is right, we do have to also acknowledge the work of the healer, who is healing the healer?

The non-partisan congressional Research Service also reports that floods are the most common and costliest natural disasters across the United States.

China has declared itself a 'near-Arctic state' and aims to develop a 'Polar Silk Road'--it has invested billions in its Belt and Road initiative in Russia to achieve these goals.

The U.S., Canada, and Finland signed the ICE Pact Memorandum of Understanding yesterday, which marks an important first step in re-prioritizing icebreakers and U.S. and allied presence in the Arctic.

assuming everything goes the way we expect to.

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