Dina Titus

Smart investments in lifeline infrastructure and community resilience are the best way to address the threat of worsening disasters.

This significant piece of legislation will facilitate historical resources and incentives to help American communities invest in cost-effective, risk reducing disaster mitigation efforts.

Chairman Titus and Ranking Member Webster are to be commended for leading the subcommittee in prioritizing the need for disaster mitigation and resilience investments.

We are trying to do away with that, and have a more equitable policy.

But having that consistency, I think, is important.

I so appreciate you, Administrator, for mentioning our bill, Mr. Katko's and my bill about creating this reserve force.

Mitigation cannot be effective unless it is fairly distributed across all communities.

I hope the House will take a positive step today by passing the bipartisan Resilient America Act.

We are reacting as opposed to being ahead of the game, and then we get behind Europe.

General aviation is so important to the Las Vegas economy.

I want to thank our chairman, Mr. DeFazio, for focusing this important hearing on the bottlenecks at ports and our supply chain.

You know, I represent Las Vegas, and we want people to have a good time. We have got 40 million visitors who come here, most of them come through the airport.

There is a bipartisan bill that I introduced, H.R. 5291, that would do this, it is called the Democracy in Design Act.

I am not here to relitigate the decisions of the past which I found unethical and borderline illegal.

It would be helpful to have clarity around this as there are about 25 leases expiring between January of 2022 and December of 2025.

The lease is currently held by the Trump Organization in an arrangement that has been fraught with legal and ethical questions.

I am hopeful that our relationship is remarkedly different than we had with your predecessors given the important role this subcommittee plays in your responsibilities.

We need more coordination and cooperation, an all-of-Government approach.

I would argue that you also need to have some environmentalists at the table because that is where you are going to hear some of the opposition to some of the more extreme forest management issues.

We have been building more and more houses into the wildland-urban interface, trying to create affordable housing where people can live, and so we are just kind of increasing our risk here.

I'd like to welcome everyone to today's hearing and thank our witnesses for joining us to discuss whether the Stafford Act and the Federal Emergency Management Agency's (FEMA) response, recovery, and mitigation programs are designed to…

What might we cut with statutory changes that will make this situation better?

I am proud to join our colleague, Representative Ayanna Pressley, in introducing her Post-Disaster Mental Health Response Act.

FEMA has interpreted current law to deny assistance to people experiencing homelessness prior to a disaster, despite their exceptional needs.

Our country must develop a new disaster housing recovery system that centers the housing needs of the lowest-income survivors, including people of color, people with disabilities, and others.