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Expect the total price tag to be . Guest last night the White House Office of management and budget sent out a letter, and what they are asking for is 7. 85 billion immediately. Most of that is for fema to replenish the Disaster Relief fund. Some good reporting from my colleagues, fema is burning through their disaster might have a stunning rate. Money added stunning disaster money at a stunning rate. The white house is expecting a longer resolution on spending. They also want to . 7 billion in ...

Week, you guys, as a cover story, you are taking a look at Hurricane Harvey. Knew thiseekly, you storm was coming, but how, as a weekly did you plan for this coverage . Howard we were going to wait and see with the storm is like. When we were planning over the weekend, the storm had not yet quite hit. By sunday it was clear it was a huge disaster. Peter coy who is back from vacation is our great synthesizer, our resident economist. And he can take almost any story and look at it from an economic...

Figure out how much money is needed for houston and louisiana . Stephen like they talk about with a fog of war, there is a fog of disaster. Immediately the efforts are about First Responders and getting people out of harms way. And then as you start to move into recovery it is hard to know , exactly what the needs are. You want to start slowly in some respects. In that you need to open up this spicket ofcash cash. You want to make sure that money is being spent wisely and appropriately. Initiall...

Oconnor. This Aspen Institute event is just over an hour. Good evening and thank you merrill. On july 7, 1981, i was driving in my car where i was a relatively recent partner at my law firm. Our lawyers and our spouses had returned from a firm outing to prescott, arizona, which has the oldest rodeo on the fourth of july. Of course aware of the rumors that then judge oconnor was being considered for the Supreme Court, we asked her some questions. As you would expect, she was dismissive of the rum...

The heritage. Org as well as cspan networks. For those inhouse, we would ask that courtesy to know that mobile devices have been turned off. For those watching online, you are welcome to ask questions or comments anytime by simply emailing speaker heritage. Org. Leading our discussion and welcoming our special guest is david croitzer our legal fellow. Our Senior Research fellow for labor markets and trade. Prior to joining us here at heritage, he taught economics at James Madison university from...

Insurance companies, the private Insurance Companies would price in the risk. If there was money to be made by pricing in risk, they would do it. This is what we need. Its kind of ridiculous that all of the american taxpayers should be on the hook for National Flood insurance, as tragic as this situation is. Look, the all time record for a flood payout was 20 billion. Hurricane andrew in 1992. That was a cat 5 hurricane. Had it hit miami, there are estimates it would have been 200 billion. Thats...

Up through louisiana. The first posture fema takes in one of these disasters is understand we have survivors who dont have insurance. But they aredont, all survivors that require assistance from us. And we talkons about this more broadly for folks across the country that can make that active decision to buy insurance, but they we look at those who do and those who dont. If you have a Flood Insurance policy and youre in one of these affected areas, adjusters are already on the ground and are goin...

Insurance companies, the private Insurance Companies would price in the risk. If there was money to be made by pricing in risk, they would do it. This is what we need. Its kind of ridiculous that all of the american taxpayers should be on the hook for National Flood insurance, as tragic as this situation is. Look, the all time record for a flood payout was 20 billion. Hurricane andrew in 1992. That was a cat 5 hurricane. Had it hit miami, there are estimates it would have been 200 billion. Thats...

Are looking at Hurricane Harvey. How as a weekly did we plan for this coverage . We were going to wait to see what the storm was like because when we were planning over the weekend, the storm had not hit. By sunday it was clear that it was a huge disaster. Peter was back from vacation, he is an economist and he can take almost any story and look at the economic angle but also a human angle. He was perfect for this. There is another story. Chris has been doing work with fema and reporting on Nati...

We signed it now its going through hopefully quick. Plenty of praise for recovery officials. What a job. The water is disappearing we have a long way to go but the water is disappearing. The flood waters are disappearing, but the clean up and recovery facing millions ever texans is just beginning. Well get updates from our team in texas as well as the mayor of houston and the head of fema, brock long. Plus well look at the potential health risk as result of harvey and hear from Bob Schieffer abo...