Well, the Congress can mandate them to do so. I will be very interested in doing that.
the Congress, as you know, provided $11.5 billion in needed FEMA funding for response and recovery for Hurricane Sandy and other ongoing dis...
A disproportionate share of our Nation's debt and deficit reduction has come from spending cuts as opposed to increased revenues.
to spend taxpayer money smartly, again rebuilding these communities for the future, not rebuilding past communities.
Smarter designs, better materials can withstand some of these storms up to 150, sometimes 200-mile-an-hour winds.
We will get it for you. Don't worry.
The Federal Government has $1.6 billion for the entire country for new construction for the Army Corps of Engineers.
I want to underscore that, under the law, when FEMA's bucket gets low, the only thing they can do is stop ongoing recovery.
I could spend $1.6 billion in Louisiana alone on actual Army Corps of Engineers projects that must be done to mitigate against storms and di...
President Obama signed the Executive order creating the Hurricane Sandy Rebuilding Task Force on December 7, 2012.
Sequestration will lead to a number of deeply troubling and harmful impacts across critical Government programs.