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Approvement act . And what other benefits are being experienced . Um as far as benefits of the Sandy Recovery reimprovement act is a very important tool and the other lesson that we have learned from is the events of katrina is that there are certain types of projects that are technically difficult that exceed the average capacity for people to manage and you need expert so we engage very early. And identify where the projects will be whether they are hospitals or other large public infrastructures. We brought in a lot of experts. It wasnt until you passed a Sandy Recovery improvement act that...

Work we have done here. This is an important issue so it makes me sad. I have a district full of firstgenerations family. I doubt there is someone who has been in congress for five years who didnt try to work a case for a family who had a loved one pass away and wanted to bring a young Family Member in from overseas to be with the family at the funeral put the officers had to say no you dont meet the qualifications for coming into the country. You cannot come to be a part of your familys grieving. You have to stay away. As it turns out, as the president has defined things if you defy the law a...

Panels from the 2014 ideas festival in new york. Well start with the discussion on technology and social media. Then well hear from a nasa scientist, working on mars exploration. Later cancer biologist, andrew z hestle looks at cancer research. And thin well look at virtual currency. This weekend on the cspan networks, friday night at 10 00 eastern on cspan, a conversation with retired Justice John Paul stevens, the founder and former chair of microsoft bill gates on the Ebola Outbreak in west africa. And the director of the museum of african art, and friday night on cspan 2, authors talk abou...

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 ...