"Those words come to mind when I think of COVID-19, which has become the seminal catastrophe of the 21st Century."
"Hospitals in New York are bleeding and instead of treating it as an emergency, it feels to us like FEMA is moving bureaucratically as though it were business as usual."
"Do you believe as I do that hazard pay for our health care heroes was a critical component of the response to COVID-19?"
"But you recognize that hazard pay could be a critical tool for sustaining and retaining a work force that is in danger of burning out and turning over in a global pandemic?"
"It was, in fact, used during COVID."
"the justification was adequately documented. It was COVID-19."
"expecting applicants to have a preexisting policy is nonsensical because the hazard pay was itself an emergency response to COVID."
"In the wake of SolarWinds, President Biden issued Executive Order 14028 requiring all agencies to either implement multi-factor authentication by November or provide a reason for failing to do so."
"FEMA owes New York State health care providers billions of dollars in reimbursements."
"Can you see to it that FEMA responds to our request as soon as possible?"
"There are Federal regulators such as the SEC and the CFPB that have a practice of allowing corporate bad actors to enter into settlements and pay a fine without ever admitting wrongdoing."
"It has been 11 years since the passage of Dodd-Frank... and yet, in spite of it all, a Section 1033 rule has not yet been implemented."