Sam Graves: “To close. Mr. Speaker, in closing, the Resilient AMERICA Act does support the communities by investing in premitigation…”

“To close. Mr. Speaker, in closing, the Resilient AMERICA Act does support the communities by investing in premitigation efforts, and these efforts are going to save lives. It is going to save taxpayer dollars by lowering costs of future disasters. It is going to do so many things. Mr. Speaker, I urge support of this important piece of legislation. I again want to thank the chairman for working with us on this. I yield back the balance of my time. Mr. DeFAZIO. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume to close. We have just heard very telling testimony from the gentleman from Louisiana (Mr. Graves) about the issues with the frequent problems they have had with hurricanes down there, and then the gentleman from California (Mr. LaMalfa) talking about wildfires, which have become more and more intense and widespread and persistent in the West. On both sides of the aisle, I think almost any Member who has had a disaster, a natural disaster in their district, can attest to the fact that if his or her community had been better prepared, if they had taken steps toward resilience, if the Federal Government had given them that guidance and perhaps some funding incentives to put in place those mitigation measures, that lives would have been saved, property would have been saved, and ultimately the Federal taxpayers would save a lot of money.…”