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On cspan2. The reauthorization of the National Flood Insurance Program. Femas perspective. All members will have five days for extraneous materials to the chair for inclusion in the record. I recognize myself for five minutes for an opening statement. Thank you for appearing today for the second hearing for the housing subcommittee for the 118th congress. Fema plays a vital road through the Disaster Recovery efforts and today well explore the National Flood Insurance Program which existed over 5...

God has blessed this region of our country. May ability to do many things. In this period of two years, the government has made every effort to ensure that our dear people in fars province can live in prosperity and solve their problems. I also pay my respects to all the elders of fars province and to the nobles of fars province. To the great municipality of this province, to the veterans and sacrificers, to their noble families, i hope, god willing , that we can complete this trip as planned fo...

The four. Im Heather Holmes and im alex savage. The Biden Administration is urging hamas to accept the terms of a reported cease fire deal proposed by israel. The terms of this agreement have not been made public, but it reportedly lowers the number of hostages that hamas would be required to free during the initial six weeks of the cease fire, in exchange for the release of hundreds of palestinian prisoners. Secretary of state Antony Blinken is in saudi arabia today ahead of a visit to israel t...

developing. bidens white house calling the situation at the border a challenge at a big problem but still not calling it a crisis. this is as the administration officials blame the trump team for what is happening there. now bidens homeland security chiefs warning "we are on pace to encounter more individuals on the southwest border when we have in just the last 20 years." >> john: pretty shocking statement. were going to speak with texas senator john cornyn and arizonas attorney gener...

Eighteen is the creation of jobs especially for the young people in our country thank you we are going to embark on a number of measures to address the unemployment challenge one of the initiatives we will embark on is to convene a jobs summit within the next few months to align the efforts of every sector in every stakeholder up behind the imperative of job creation. Now this is a response to a number of stakeholders in the Labor Movement and business who have said to us as government what is n...

There will be license plate information to immigration agents. After all, immigration and Customs Enforcement recently collected plates for dwrat data. I. C. E. Could use it for a different purpose. Alameda police strongly denies that. We do not share the reader data base with i. C. E. It has been turned off. The chief says plate readers dont give them any personal identifying information. It doesnt tell me that car belongs to john smith. It doesnt tell me gender, race, religious background. Imm...

Fresh on their minds, cal fire did not hesitate to evacuate 150 families nearby. The next morning, literally, in bear creek itself, it was a severe mix of destruction. On one side, a picturesque Santa Cruz Mountain scene. On the other, a wildfire burning out of control. Todays forecast was about as good as it gets. Short of it actually raining. Calm winds, cool temperatures, and high humidity kept the flames low and slow. With the flames creeping along the ground, the strategy here in this canyo...

Pursuant to House Resolution 607 and rule 18, the chair declares the house in the committee of the whole house on the state of the union for further consideration of h. R. 3043. Will the gentleman from illinois, mr. Davis, kindly ake the chair. The chair the house is in the committee of the whole house on the state of the union for further consideration of h. R. 3043 which the clerk will report by title. The clerk a bill to modernize hydropower policy and for other purposes. The chair when the c...

That occurred last year, is occurring again this year and will continue to occur next year. Each year is getting worse than the previous. In my home, we will see approximately 800 drugrelated deaths in 2017, which is an increase from our most devastating year, last year, 2016, when we saw approximately 660 people die from drugrelated deaths, up from 370 the year before. Nearly 9 to of these deaths will be due to opioids of some kind. Prescribed pills from which the crisis originated and grew fro...

We have a great group of members who are here and i know everybodys got a lot of different commitments this morning. We are also eager to hear from our witnesses and talk about a critical issue facing our country. Its really a crisis in our communities and its getting worse, not better and the crisis is this Opioid Epidemic. The country is being gripped by it. My state is in many states are. Its in every corner of my state. Earlier this month in ohio, there was a near fatal but now overdose foll...