Kathleen Rice: “Just to show how bipartisan we are all going to be, as a Democrat, I would like to welcome my former colleague…”

The CAROL Act is named in honor of Carol Leavell Barr, the wife of Rep. Andy Barr, who died last year of sudden cardiac arrest.

I remember, in the days and weeks and months after 9/11, you know, which basically shut down the aviation industry for some time.

How can we create or encourage a more holistic approach to disaster relief that improves intergovernmental coordination?

This tragedy hit home for one of our former colleagues, former Congressman Rick Nolan, who lost his daughter Katherine to lung cancer even though she did not smoke.