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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 have a friend of mine who is from australia, and he tells me theyve had the hottest weather in their hi...

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, and just to underbehind this, and save money. Save money in the long haul. We have deficits coming ...

Proactively preparing for potential disasters and readily responding to a situation as it occurs. Across the department, from fema, to mppd to science and technology, we work with a wide array of government, private and nonprofit faithbased organizations to build and foster resilience. Not as a concept, but as an applied reality. Fema is leading implementation of the National Preparedness system. My colleague here today will discuss our Critical Infrastructure, security and resilience programs, and in my office, the office of policy, we coordinate resilience initiatives and policy across the d...

We stole him from san jose at the tender age of i think 29 or 30 to come all the way to the National Association of environmental control. If i had half the energy of this guy, i would be president and Vice President. Hes an amazing guy. Very proud of the work that you do. Thank you for joining us today. Our second witness is from a bigger state than ours New Hampshire, and kelly ayotte cant with be us. Dr. Paul is it kirshen . Dr. Kirshen, Research Professor at the university of New Hampshire. What is your mascot there . Wildcats. Wildcats, yes. Weve had some rough football saturdays against ...

The government. So i look forward to this and thank you very much. Were just glad that you could join us, senator johnson and me. Thanks so much for coming for your comments. When along when senator begich was speaking i was reminded of all people senator mick enzi from wyoming, as my colleagues know, i oftentimes cite him, he may be later here today. He has his 80 20 rule that is one of his Guiding Principles in terms of how to get things done and the 80 20 rule is basically, we agree on 80 of the stuff. Here in congress. We disagree maybe on 20 . Lets just focus on the 80 that we agree on. A...