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The committee will come to order. Wildfires are an increasing threat to our country. They have burned more land and put more communities in danger. Last year alone, wildfires affected americans from hawaii to the great smoky mountains. This year, it is likely to get worse. As we sit here today, communities in texas just finished fighting the largest wildfire in the history of that state. It burned almost 1. 4 million acres of land, taking lives, damaging houses, devastating agriculture, displaci...

The committee will come to order. Wildfires are an increasing threat to our country. They have burned more land and put more communities in danger. Last year alone, wildfires affected americans from hawaii to the great smoky mountains. This year, it is likely to get worse. As we sit here today, communities in texas just finished fighting the largest wildfire in the history of that state. It burned almost 1. 4 million acres of land, taking lives, damaging houses, devastating agriculture, displaci...

The committee will come to order. Wildfires are an increasing threat to our country. They have burned more land and put more communities in danger. Last year alone, wildfires affected americans from hawaii to the great smoky mountains. This year, it is likely to get worse. As we sit here today, communities in texas just finished fighting the largest wildfire in the history of that state. It burned almost 1. 4 million acres of land, taking lives, damaging houses, devastating agriculture, displaci...

Approvement act . And what other benefits are being experienced . Um as far as benefits of the Sandy Recovery reimprovement act is a very important tool and the other lesson that we have learned from is the events of katrina is that there are certain types of projects that are technically difficult that exceed the average capacity for people to manage and you need expert so we engage very early. And identify where the projects will be whether they are hospitals or other large public infrastructu...

Off the coast of the northwest us the earthquake risk which is a very large risk command i think that we can show where we are going and tell you what we think is the path to get us there and then that will give you an opportunity to look at additional tools that you could give us. The stafford act was often times a constraint. In the past year we have responded to haiti which is traditionally the role of usaid. We were asked to support usaid command we did. We were asked to support unaccompanie...

Times the 1st resort for insurable property that was not insured and those losses again it is a decision that we have to look at how to best ensure communities are able to rebuild but at the same time dont support or continue growing the risk. We have to understand there is a a certain amount of risk out there. The exposure for just south florida for a repeat a repeat of the great Miami Hurricane would be in the hundreds of billions of dollars with federal cost exceeding both sandy and katrina. ...

Billed. The staffford act however is limited to oftentimes only those Natural Hazards with limited flexibility. I think the delegate brings up an important point. When you look at growing hazards, such as cyber and others, what is the role of the Disaster Relief fund in the consequence world. And if it is not in rebuilding in the Emergency Response cost and the ability to use Emergency Declaration to bring resource to bear is it worthwhile looking at such things its kind of a question. What is t...

Congress should closely consider policy issues that can improve U.S. security and advance international partnerships.

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