Rick Larsen: “Today's hearing focuses on rural transportation and the unique experience, needs, and challenges of rural communities…”

The region is rich in natural resources including 90 billion barrels of undiscovered oil, 30 percent of the world's undiscovered natural gas and $1 trillion in rare earth minerals.

So, Congress should approve the President's request for supplemental disaster assistance funding before the end of this Congress.

This is an FAA bill. It is an aviation manufacturing bill. This applies to everybody that it applies to.

For the second year in a row, FEMA is currently operating in Immediate Needs Funding.