Eleanor Holmes Norton: “I think, Ms. Weichert, when I talked with you before this committee, you told me it's been 70 years, and that may be…”

Ranking Member Holmes Norton and Representative Ezell have championed bipartisan legislation to fight freight fraud, which is destroying small trucking businesses every day.

H.R. 8505, the Household Goods Shipping Consumer Protection Act, restores the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration's authority to issue civil penalties against bad actors and enhances registration criteria.

H.R. 8505 would provide FMCSA with better tools to root out unscrupulous actors, which are also harmful to consumers and highway safety.

FEMA has provided more than $1.6 billion in assistance to more than 910,000 households.