Our email newsletter word for word office a a synopsis of the event. Sign up at cspan. Org connect. Coming up shortly, Texas Governor will give an update on the damage caused by hurricane laura and his live coverage here on cspan2. We are opening up the phoneh lines to get your top issue and campaign 2020 if youre supporting the president or joee biden. If youre undecided or thirdparty candidate. We will get to your calls in a minute but joining us on the boat is mike johnson of louisiana. You were expected to be in washington for the president s speech but youre staying there because of the hurricane. Whats the latest on the ground . You may be able to hear the heavy winds in the w background through the window here, we stayed here in the district because this is a historical event for us, is being registered, we are being told it could be the worst hurricane that ever hit our state and its pretty massive. The damage it wide spread, but god is spread grace, we dont have any fatalities
Im just trying to get to the. Of urgency. In terms of your position, your job, you are the one setting this up. When we are looking through your documents saying there is a potential for a blowout that is why we were there wouldnt it have been prudent to make sure how much water was behind the wall . That is one of the issues, whether we took all the steps that were prudent. Can you understand the frustration, the position frustration, the position you put yourself in as being enforcers, experts in the field, and you are saying this is aa mystery and we are having to look back and see what went wrong . This is my district. I have talked to engineers, minors of work in that area. They would not have proceeded the way that the epa did. Let me save you some time you have zero mining engineers. Our committee has more mining engineers than the epa. Mr. Hardy. Thank you, mr. Chairman. I would like to know how many hydrological engineers you have on your team . I do not know that answer geolo
They act as Emergency Responders with us. The southern ute have been an incredible and incredibly diligent and being embedded in our command center, working on this. The professionalism has been wonderful, so we will make sure they are properly reimbursed for expenses. The 2nd process is the claims process, what damages have it occurred, and we use the federal claims tort act in order to process those claims. How does the federal tort claims act help the navajo . They lost a huge amount of irrigating water which can have longterm devastating effects of drought continues and they do not have the water now or in the future . How can they be made whole . Two things that are happening here as well. We are talking to the navajo about how they get reimbursed. We need to work with the president as well as the Navajo Nation epa to reimbursed for their expenses. The 2nd issue is the claim process. I want to make sure that we are all aware that the reimbursement process is quite different. While
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