The purpose of this hearing is to examine whether bureaucracy prevented a timely response to the recent devastating wildfires experienced in our State.
The lack of immediate response from these aircraft assets caused significant delays in fighting the fires in Bastrop Cou...
I first would like to thank my good friend, Congressman Henry Cuellar, for agreeing to be the Ranking Member of this com...
Texas has been the epicenter of a great natural disaster this year.
What happened in Texas this year is inexcusable and unacceptable.
FEMA must also change its defined jurisdictions for declarations.
We've got to cut the Federal Government. The Federal Government is getting in our way.
I think it's outdated. The Stafford Act, which governs disaster response, recognizes that the States and local communiti...
The State of Texas remains to be a tinderbox, and I think it's very foreseeable, as it has been this past year, that we'...
What happened in Texas is inexcusable and unacceptable.
I'll be the first one to say we need to do a lot more.