The work that the Federal Emergency Management Agency does is critical to helping our country prepare for, mitigate against, and recover from disasters.

Hopefully with the new disaster funding mechanism Congress passed as part of the Budget Control Act, we will now have more long-term stability to fund critical disaster relief needs.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Admiral, your 2013 budget proposal would close two seasonal air stations, in Muskegon, Michigan, and Waukegan, Illinois.

Your leadership in this critical government function has brought us full circle.

Your new national preparedness grant proposal has raised many questions as to how it will work.

That seems like a long time. Why will it take this long?

I just want to make sure we are clear on how that is unfolding and what kind of timeline you are working with here.

So, Mr. Chairman, I hope we can work together to address these problems as we develop our 2013 funding recommendations.

Your request continues to lowball funding in my view for the flood hazard mapping and Risk Analysis Program which if adopted would cut funding for this program by 60 percent in two years when we all know that flooding is the most frequent…

Administrator, I want to return to your national preparedness grant proposal and make very clear that I share your point of view, your desire for a more efficient, more targeted, more risk-based way of making these grants available, of…

Mr. Speaker, I am proud to stand with the President and working Americans today by supporting this measure, which will add an average of $1,000 to the paychecks of working North Carolinians this year, extend unemployment benefits for…