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You saw kentucky senator rand paul coming out and members of the Senate Republicans had their weekly conferences. Democrats, to but on the republic inside their meeting with President Trump for the first time up on capitol hill for one of these tuesday mornings. Were expecting comments from leaders shortly and the senate gaveling in momentarily. Cant bring those, live to you on cspan2 we are streaming them live online at cspan. Org. We will take you back to the next senate floor. Live coverage o...

Help. Ive met county supervisors and two of them in particular the supervisors in th and the entire districts were on fire. Yet they were leading the charge in the recovery effort into doing so in such a selfless way. But ithe entire communities were devastated. People lost everything and are still suffering to an incredible extent because the loss they experiencedw and it isnt being resettled. My heart breaks and i know that we feel for the 42 people and the families whose lives were ended in t...

Priority that they deserve. California has been devastated, frankly, by the wildfires that we have just experienced. Ten days ago, i was in santa rosa, california, and firsthand witnessed the devastation that took place throughout that region, and in particular in cofey park. I met with evacuation, i met with firefighters, i met with community leaders, elected leaders, and others who traveled to that area out of concern and with the desire to help. I met county supervisors, and two of them in pa...

Sullivan 400 million in profit. How do you explain that . While we were providing oversight, it was not enough. Narrator tonight, a frontland npr special report. People are profiting unfairly on other peoples misery. Narrator business of disaster. Frontline is made possible by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. And by the corporation for public broadcasting. Major support is provided by the john d. And catherine t. Macarthur foundation. Committed to building a mo...

Sullivan 400 million in profit. How do you explain that . While we were providing oversight, it was not enough. Narrator tonight, a frontland npr special report. People are profiting unfairly on other peoples misery. Narrator business of disaster. Frontline is made possible by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. And by the corporation for public broadcasting. Major support is provided by the john d. And catherine t. Macarthur foundation. Committed to building a mo...

Mr. Thornberry mentioned about ack which situation reform and making sure the system works better. I thank the chairman who has taken the lead on this issue. I think we have made significant improvements while acknowledging that we still have a long way to go to get the efficiency out of the pentagon budget. I think this bill does a great job supporting the troops and their families. Its basically the case we recruit a Service Member but you retain the family, and that means you have to provide ...

Determined there was not enough affordable, of private Flood Insurance. There was a perceived market failure, so they created this program that the taxpayer would provide this insurance to people, and also if you lived in a high risk area, what they floodplain,00year there was a 1 chance in a given year it would flood, then you had a federally backed mortgage. You were required to purchase Flood Insurance. 5. 1 millionhey were policies in the Flood Insurance program. It brings in about 3 billion...

The cato institute. Is here to talk about ways to reform the National Flood Insurance Program, which has to be free off the rise by the end of september and is nearly 25 billion in debt. Good morning. First explain what the National Flood Insurance Program is and who uses it. Guest its the main way people who live in floodplains or by oceans or anywhere where they like it flooded, how they get insured. There is now a little bit of private insurance. More than 90 of people get it through this. Th...

It, investors want to see an evidence of an improving economy in order to rely less on government policies. Today the Dow Jones Industrial average was off 13 points to 20,650. The nasdaq dropped 17 and the s p 500 lost 3. And another key events over the next few days and weeks could determine direction of stocks. Dominic chu explains. One quarter down, three more to go in 2017. And one of the biggest questions for investors now is whether the market rally since the election can keep going. While...

In 1989 to 80 during Hurricane Sandy in 2012. In recent years, significant disaster aid was provided outside the fema Disaster Assistance programs. These charts show how aid programs outside fema have grown. In fact, for Hurricane Sandy, there was less fema assistance from the department of housing and urban development or the department of transportation. We found these additional disaster aid programs dont have the same requirements and restrictions as the fema assistance. Fema assistance is t...