"In a broader issue, the issue--and I have had a hearing on this and some other discussion regarding mitigation, what is happening with climate change, the impacts it is having on more severe storms, more costly storms, or disasters, I should say, in a broader sense, weather related."
"I was in the Matanuska Valley recently, which is just outside of Anchorage, and 40 percent of the maps are inaccurate."
"By itself, it is bad."
"Come to Alaska. We have one every week, it seems."
"The IG got right in there to make sure you had the right language."
"I also understand the gaps in productivity and innovation and overall progress that can occur when key positions are vacant."
"My frustration is not with you or FEMA. It is with the White House and their ability--or inability."
"But I am concerned that FEMA may not be able to handle this at this point."
"Because the disasters are bigger, or that is what we are doing?"
"I kind of ask you this and maybe, Joseph, you can answer this, too--is there an opportunity to have a hybrid partnership, maybe that between local governments or State governments to utilize these kin..."
"What we are really talking about is putting the risk back to the States that have the highest risk."