Nikema Williams: “Thank you so much. And I will yield back the balance of my time as Carter has just come in and interrupted my train of…”

This administration is withholding funding left and right to anything that has to do with Black people, Indigenous people, Latino people.

Now more than ever, with climate change causing more frequent and more damaging flooding, Congress and this committee should be working to reauthorize and strengthen the NFIP.

It is of the utmost importance that the next farm bill ensures the nearly $20 billion provided in the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) for USDA conservation programs is used for its intended purpose.

By a show of hands, how many of you think it will be a terrible idea to allow the NFIP to expire?