Kathleen Rice: “The CAROL Act is named in honor of Carol Leavell Barr, the wife of Rep. Andy Barr, who died last year of sudden cardiac…”

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

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.

I am very proud of the workforce development efforts already underway at Stony Brook University and Farmingdale State College in my home State of New York.

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