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
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You can join also on twitter and facebook. Com cspan. There is a conversation going on there as well. Looking athington the news, what do you have . Demconvf you go to ention. Com you can find the schedule. Democrats will gaveling tomorrow at 4 00 p. M. Eastern. The fame, according to the Washington Post is united together. It will feature First Lady Michelle Obama along with senator Bernie Sanders. Tuesdays theme is a lifetime fighting for children and families, it will be headlined by bill clinton and mothers of the movement referring to the black lives Matter Movement whose sons and daughters were killed by the police. Will start tim kaine, president obama, and Vice President biden. Is when the that democrats will hear from Hillary Clinton, the first female president ial nominee of a major party. She will be introduced by her daughter. Chelsea clinton will not be speaking at the democratic who will not be speaking at the Democratic National convention . Debbie Wasserman Schultz will
The attacker may be interested in disruption or destruction. They dont have to get outside of your network. They dont care about getting outside your network. So we need to understand that were dealing with multiple different cyber problems. Some are national security, infrastructure, making sure the grid doesnt go down. We need a different strategy with regard to that than we may need for the strictly criminal or theft problem. And when we have a more sophisticated policy in this regard, i think were going to be able to make more progress. And also just to briefly follow up on a question that miss bonamici was talking about, as far as develop nug working ns for the Cyber Security workforce, are your companies seeing a Workforce Shortage . Do you see a lot of growth for the future in that . Mr. Wood. We do see an enormous shortfall of Cyber Security professionals. In the state of virginia alone, the State Government has announced that we have about 17,000 unfilled Cyber Security profes