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We should realize ousted the efforts to encourage adoption nationwide. While many stakeholders approach the issue differently we all have a common goal as the officials private sector Business Leaders and committee probers we have a role to play to reduce the cost of disaster i appreciate the opportunity to testify with any questions you may have. Good morning. Think youre traveling this important hearing today for solutions to controlling the in increased cost of Natural Disasters provided Seni...

Has made a number of public comments. We held a hearing, many members, republican and democrat, were present on the question of fragile states. He is, i think, appropriately highlighting that the cost of restabilizing countries like libya, syria, iraq and continuing to hold together countries like nigeria and pakistan is going to be substantial. And we need to engage in a bipartisan and thoughtful way in advancing why it is in americas interests to prevent the collapse of even more larger and po...

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...

The 114th congress, i stated that my top Emergency Management priority was pursuing life saving and cost reducing disaster legislation and launching a Public Policy debate about the costs of disasters in terms of both the loss of property and human life. We follow that hearing with several round tables to help us understand what disasters cost this country, who pays those costs and whether the problem is Getting Better or worse. Early last year, Ranking Member carson and i introduced the fema fo...

Were physical act of tackling. It cant be done. Tackling is tackling. The seahawks tackling defined it exactly as it is done. It should be done at the three levels of football where the game should be played. If boys cant tackle the way the technique was designed, they shouldnt be playing contact football. They should be playing flag until they are ready to play. Thank you, gentlemen. Congratulations to the classic 2016. Today is your day of celebration. Your choices will make all the difference...

Weather appears to be the new norm. Events like superstorm saturday which came to my shores and our shears in the mid atlantic a year or so ago, recent wildfires in ore parts of the country other parts of the country, dangerous tornadoes, historic droughts. They may well be just the tip of the iceberg of whats to come. And even today the east coast is preparing for yet another snowstorm while the west coast is experiencing a historic drought. And increased fire danger with no end in sight. I hav...

Welcome one and all. Great to see our witnesses. Great to be here with senator johnson, and well call this hearing to order. I appreciate the effort of all of you to get here today. Im glad were having the hearing today, and not tomorrow. If we were having it tomorrow we might not be having a hearing. Todays hearing, as you know, is focused on the costs of not being prepared for extreme weather events, and exploring the ways that our federal government can increase resiliency in our communities,...

By calling. If you want to reach out on social media, you can do so off of twitter. 15 saying worried, 10 optimistic and you can send an email. The headlines were the inspiration for the question. When it comes to economic related matters the wall street journal on the jobs record. Tepid job growth fuels worry. We will highlight the use of the word worry. And in New York Times job creation is still steady despite worry. They talk about the jobs report. Turning to wall street and stock market, he...

Called the marketing of rebellion, why the reason that some causes succeed has more to do with how they resonate in particular constituencies. It over the last 15, 20 years, there has and a slavery search. Been a slavery search. There are certain constituencies and audiences that are infinitely more comfortable talking about problems today than slavery and its legacies and continuing forms of structural in justice, discrimination, and so forth and. Than continuing forms of structural injustice, ...