Washington journal. Weill take you le to that hearing on the Senate Banking committee. Live coverage. We will see you tomorrow morning at 7 00 a. Eastern. Chair brown the committee will come to order. Thank you to the witnesses f joining us. This hearing is a continuation of our effortso ena longterm reauthorization of the flood surance program and fip programs. It has been extend 28 times since december 2017. The latest extension will expire rch 8 of this year. We will disclose we will discuss local leader perspectives and the challenge of potential solutions to the risks that flooding poses to committees across th country. Soany issues, transportation, housing, eacof these is a priority for this committee. These leaders know all too well, floodi is the most costly Natural Disaster facg the country. It is devastating to communities in every state. That is one good reason that mayor patterson is here from my stat landuse patterns play a role in whether people want to and whether people
Chair brown the committee will come to order. Thank you to the witnesses for joining us. This hearing is a continuation of our efforts to enact longterm reauthorization of the Flood Insurance program and fip programs. It has been extended 28 times since december 2017. The latest extension will expire march 8 of this year. We will disclose we will discuss local leader perspectivesolutions to the risks that flooding poses to committees across the country. Tion, housing, each of these is a priority for this committee. These leaders know all too well, flooding is the most costly Natural Disaster facing the country. It is devastating to communities in every state. That is one good reason that mayor patterson is here from my state. Landuse patterns play a role in whether people want to and whether people want to admit it or not, Climate Change is only making it worse. It is making extreme weather events more frequent, less predictable and more extreme across the country. This month, streams
neil: demand all they want. the supreme court has ruled against the president s loan forgiveness program. a lot of folks not happy about that. there s options to make the payments more affordable or come up with some other solution. we re expecting to hear from the president of the united states on that. welcome. i m neil cavuto. shannon bream has had a busy day. tell us what s going down. let s talk about the student debt relief program that the supreme court 6-3 said cannot move forward. the chief justice had this to say. that s what the court found here. they said essentially they re waiving away $430 billion in executive loans. dissenting justice kagan said the statute does give the secretary broad authority to relieve a national emergency s effect on borrower s ability to relieve. the secretary did that. clearly the two sides saw this differently. the bottom line strawberry that program, which the president had expressed it being illegal, the speaker of the house s
On cspan2. The reauthorization of the National Flood Insurance Program. Femas perspective. All members will have five days for extraneous materials to the chair for inclusion in the record. I recognize myself for five minutes for an opening statement. Thank you for appearing today for the second hearing for the housing subcommittee for the 118th congress. Fema plays a vital road through the Disaster Recovery efforts and today well explore the National Flood Insurance Program which existed over 50 years and until recently has operated in the same manner and relied on the same outdated tools since its creation and i just applaud the progress that youre making as flooding in the United States is a significant and costly problem for coastal and inland residents. Unfortunately, theres only one provider for nearly all Flood Insurance and the governmentbacked program which sells in a 93 to 95 of all rest tension Flood Insurance in the country. Thats not just a bad idea from the perspective of
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