The reason we are is that housing finance is important to housing.

one of the things that we know about wind, particularly in West Texas, where I am from, wind can be your friend or it can be your foe

Thank you, Mr. Chairman, for holding this hearing today on federal efforts to reduce the impacts of windstorms.

Windstorms can be devastating: every year, there are about 80 deaths and 1,500 injuries from tornadoes.

I want to express my support for the legislation recently introduced by Congresswoman Wilson, of which I am a co-sponsor.

it has caused the loss of lives. I think it is estimated that every year there is about 80 deaths and 1,500 injuries.

I thank the gentleman.

This is an extremely important topic, particularly in light of the devastating tornado that tore through Moore, Oklahoma.

I hope that as we move forward with legislation we consider all of the hazard programs within the Committee's jurisdiction.

if we can mitigate that, it obviously saves that money for not only the taxpayers but for the people that own those properties.

I believe we need to take a multi-hazards approach to disaster mitigation.