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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 tied to actual disaster damage and is for individuals, governmental entities or certain nonprofits pe...

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 format to call for the First Comprehensive assessment of disaster cost and losses in over 20 years. We...

But in particular with regard to underground Natural Gas Storage, theres a very collaborative atmosphere over the course of two decades already worth of information study and sharing, and now with the recommended practices that have been developed, the question now is how do we best set the minimum Safety Standards that could be national in nature and then recognizing that any state could of course go beyond those minimum Safety Standards and advance whatever additional Safety Measures they would want to undertake that are specific to their particular operating atmosphere. We have two more and...

What are your beliefs about Islamic Jihad . Do you think its a simple peaceable conversion within your own heart and mind . Or do you believe jihad means its ok to go out and kill people who disagree with radical islam . Or your view of islam . If you cant talk about someones beliefs in islam, you cant get to whether or not theyve been radicalized. So we have some incredibly talented and intelligent f. B. I. And intelligence agents that are completely ignorant of what they need to know because this administration has made clear to them, you dont go there. If youve ever learned about jihad, mus...

Fire safety. We collect data. And we see with the data tells us. So, with that in mind, if we look at the number of fires, working fires in the mission, from 2005, if you could speak into the microphone, chief . If we look into the fires in the mission since 25actually i think its 204 i dont have a document for me but i do know its fluctuated between a low of 10 and a high of 28. If we were to take an average of all those fires up to current day, the Mission District is averaging roughly 17, a little over 17 structural working fires a year. Does that mean im trying to discount concerns of the ...