Preparedness response and recovery will be in order. Without objection, the chair is authorized to declare the subcommittee in recess at any point. Id like to say good morning. You do fulfill your mission of helping people before, during, and afters astors. We are here to discuss femas budget request for fiscal year 2023, management of recent disasters, and preparedness for future ones. The threat of Climate Change continues to grow due to increasing temperatures. It appears recordbreaking weather is our new reality. Who oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has predicted another above average Hurricane Season. In 2021 there were 58 major disaster declarations. This year we have already had 20 major disaster declarations. In 2017 Hurricane Irma caused 84 deaths in my home state of florida. And, nearly 50 billion in damages for the United States. In 2020 Hurricane Sally severely impacted florida and resulted in 7. 3 billion in damages across the Florida Panhandle and alabama. In 2020 t
Preparedness response and recovery will be in order. Without objection, the chair is authorized to declare the subcommittee in recess at any point. Id like to say good morning. You do fulfill your mission of helping people before, during, and afters astors. We are here to discuss femas budget request for fiscal year 2023, management of recent disasters, and preparedness for future ones. The threat of Climate Change continues to grow due to increasing temperatures. It appears recordbreaking weather is our new reality. Who oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has predicted another above average Hurricane Season. In 2021 there were 58 major disaster declarations. This year we have already had 20 major disaster declarations. In 2017 Hurricane Irma caused 84 deaths in my home state of florida. And, nearly 50 billion in damages for the United States. In 2020 Hurricane Sally severely impacted florida and resulted in 7. 3 billion in damages across the Florida Panhandle and alabama. In 2020 t
Would you like to see set . I would like to see those in the cyber arena, those are going to be much more broad than the u. S. Cyber command, that would be part of it. Command,thin the cyber do you have the authorities and the policies to do all of that effectively. My confirmed need to be otherwise the level of expertise is required for potentially damaging operations, this is definitely lowered allowing achieve somes to level of success. How does this impact the allies and the foreign partners and our ability to work with them. I think it increases the level of risk for all of our rs. I think it increases the lovell of risk for all partners. Is a particular problem with allies and partners with less capable defenses than we do and how do you handle that . We have a strong dialogue with many of our allies and partners and we need to continue to build on that. I know that the pentagon wants more nato members to have more access to the unmanned aircraft. At there particular issues or vu
Capacity online in the next major evolution is how we broadly across the u. S. Government to apply those issues. There is also the issue of bothing out to utilities financial utilities and public utilities. Is that something where you would need either funding or authorization or encouragement from congress . At this stage, i dont know. I do make the commitment that if i am confirmed, i will assess that and if i do believe that money or authority or support from a legislative site is required, i will approach you. I would encourage you to do that because i think there are so many different moving parts in these issues that you are addressing. Its not just in terms of operational but privacy, constitutional policy, commercial Enterprises Vs governmental enterprises, not for profits i think this exercise would be hugely important. This is bubbly not the most precise analogy but when we saw and 1940,ing in 1939 we learned a lot in louisiana maneuvers. We discovered some very capable leade
Newton County Community Services has announced the opening of its new building located at 102 E State St, Morocco. The construction project, which began in March 2023, was completed in