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I dont know what she drinks along with that but i want some of it. Your outstanding leader nancy pelosi. [applause] [applause] joe also went on that trip and it looks perfectly coiffed. [laughter] but give joe a big round of applause also. [applause] i want to thanks danny for the gracious introduction. How javier who helped obviously make this happen and is providing outstanding leadership all the time. Jim clyburn one of my favorite people, just an Extraordinary Gentlemen and leader greatly loved him and Debbie Wasserman shultz, our chairwoman of the dnc, thank you so much. [applause] and th...

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 unaccompanied children in detention facilities so we supported that. We were asked to support the ebola response...

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. It is, i think something we need to look at. We have to make sure as we go in after a disaster they ...

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 the role in a pandemic . Its not specifically excluded in the Emergency Declarations but its not ment...

[captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2015] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] today on cspan, newsmakers is next with fema administrator, craig fugate on preparations for this years hurricane and tornado seasons. Then, interviews with freshmen members of congress. Now, newsmakers. Host on newsmakers this week, we are joined by craig fugate. He is the administrator of the federal Emergency Management agency. In studio, to help with the questions, we are joined with Seth Bornstein...