67 counties in florida with the rest coming later this week. Well early voting is officially under way and in just the first two hours this morning an incredible turn out. Hundreds of people have already turned out to vote. Im here with craig lattimer. Hes supervisor of election for hillsborough county. What are you seeing so far . It very robust. If first two hours we had over 1500 people came out and a voted a one of our 16 early vote sites. Were seeing good turnout. Youre seeing also an in recent years a trend to voting early people want to the go ahead and take care of it sooner. What dw you see in 2012 do you expect to see that again in 201262 percent of our voters voted prior to election day. We just saw in recent primary 72 percent of our voters voted prior to election day. People are taking advantage of early voting because its convenient, and peoples lives are busy. Face it. Election day is the last day to election day, i hope when you wake up youre not sick, somebody need to
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Has made a number of public comments. We held a hearing, many members, republican and democrat, were present on the question of fragile states. He is, i think, appropriately highlighting that the cost of restabilizing countries like libya, syria, iraq and continuing to hold together countries like nigeria and pakistan is going to be substantial. And we need to engage in a bipartisan and thoughtful way in advancing why it is in americas interests to prevent the collapse of even more larger and potentially dangerous states. Im really grateful for your presence. Thank you. Senator cardin for a closing comment. Thank you. I want to thank both of our witnesses for being here. I certainly agree with both of your statements about the United States must reassure our gulf state partners and israel of our commitment to their security. I do just make the observation, we all talk about being strong in regards to iranian activities that are not directly related to the jcpoa, and i agree with that c
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 performing governmentlike functions. Fema only spends money on eligible items for eligible applicants, no matter how much money fema receives. Fema mitigation funds must be used on cost and official projects to ensure the federal investment is a wise one. Fema makes every effort to get money in the hands of applicants as fast as possible to enable rapid recovery from disaster impacts. From the sandy
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 also wanted to reform several Disaster Assistance programs to make them more efficient. If february, the house passed the fema legislation and we hope the senate will take up hr1471 and pass it soon. The purpose of todays hearing is to discuss what we have learned so far and begin exploring potential solutions, particularly the principals that should be driving those solutions. While there are si