So the bottom line is, when we fail to provide the adequate money to the DRF, you sometimes have to stop projects that are not easily restarted in some States, depending on their weather patterns, winter, et cetera?
Landrieu emphasizes the importance of adequate funding for disaster relief projects.
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The RESTORE Act was meant to implement quickly for the Gulf Coast to jump start restoration efforts.
I am going to really be pushing this subcommittee, the whole Committee on Appropriations, the Committee on Banking, and the Congress to get complete and accurate flood maps done before we engage in trying to rewrite a flood insurance program.
We have to protect those investments. But we also have to make sure that as we invest in the future, as we rebuild from disasters, we are making investments for future risk, not for old data.
This is not just a Louisiana, Mississippi, coastal issue. The 450 counties that are most threatened produce 50 percent of the GDP of this Nation.
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