it's my understanding for most homeowners here what the insurance that they need would be in fact windstorm insurance, which for many homeowners can run over a thousand dollars a month.

I think there needs to be a serious look from our level as to whether or not we need to continue having regional offices that are in Puerto Rico for the Virgin Islands.

We need to be able to use military planes so that individuals in the mainland who want to send supplies are able to do so.

I've just got to tell you that we will be here as long as it takes in order to be able to get this place put back together again and be more resilient in the future. And I'm committed to do whatever I can in order to be able to help.

And do you think that that was the proper mechanism for doing it rather than having individuals here berthed and staying in shelters on the ground?

I believe that FEMA should have a permanent presence in the territory, that they should literally be here year-round.

Because in the testimony I have from Miss Enwright, who is with St. John with Love City Strong and others, she discusses in her testimony that it took at least three days before they were able to see the Navy and others come after Irma.

And then in terms of the assessment, in the previous panel there was a discussion about the assessment.

I will also ask that you consider including the Virgin Islands in the Denton Act.

So if you are putting temporary housing and you are putting a temporary blue roof on a home at 25,000, then you are saying to permanently fix the roof at 25,000 does that seem like a reasonable amount for a roof?

I think people need to be aware that this is probably the only time that the U.S. House of Representatives have had a formal hearing here in the United States Virgin Islands.

And then that report goes to our Governor and then goes to the Federal partners in FEMA as well to make a determination of what reimbursement will take place?

I especially would like to thank the senate president, Myron Jackson, as well as all the members of the legislature for hosting us and having this hearing here in the Virgin Islands legislative building.

So your position is more advisory in terms of what should be needed and what specs you all would be willing to support?

It is my opinion, as the chair of the Ad Hoc Committee on Hospitals and Human Services, that the assessment by FEMA of the structures is too slow.

Thank you so much for all that you and your men and women of the Coast Guard did for the Virgin Islands.

But do you understand, when you say in the past, you make it sound like it was two years ago when it was actually just a couple of months ago.

I especially want to thank you for coming to the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico, and to all the places that you visited that have been affected by the 2017 hurricane season.

How much of the $50 billion in rural infrastructure program funding does the administration expect to set aside for Territorial infrastructure?

Does the White House infrastructure plan include considerations particularly for States and other areas to have found that the Federal investment on hazard mitigation has a six-to-one return on investment?

I have heard the concerns that you all have raised, as well as local concerns that are in the Virgin Islands as well, regarding different issues, whether it is stretching the permitting process, et cetera.

I know that the chairman says that in Pennsylvania they have expended all of their resources at the State level and the local level to do the matching that is necessary for the Federal Government.

Are there opportunities for new funding for new infrastructure to incentivize areas in resiliency?

The Army Corps performs a very important role throughout our country, from issuing permits that balance economic development and environmental protection to assisting with the Federal Government's response to natural disasters.

The Army Corps were staggeringly slow in installing the blue tarp roofs on houses that were seriously damaged by hurricanes.