Technologies and the new commandant of the u. S. Coast guard, and a discussion at the Hudson Institute about cybersecurity. Today the Senate Small Business Committee Held a hearing on Disaster Relief for Small Businesses. It focused on changes made since Hurricane Katrina hit the gulf coast ten years ago. The senate began its district work period yesterday. This is an hour. Well, good morning, everyone. Welcome. Thanks very much for joining me here today for this discussion roundtable about a very important ongoing challenge in relation to Disaster Recovery. Natural disasters are obviously indiscriminate and sweeping. With this roundtable, i hope to highlight the improvements made in Disaster Recovery efforts in the last decade, discuss continuing challenges that local, federal, and state officials still face, and have a conversation about Disaster Mitigation and response. This is, as you know, the tenth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. Were going to acknowledge that in just a couple
Think of me and us as a resource to help navigate that. What i brought today for the purposes of an introduction, im glad to answer any questions about our body of work but i highlights pages to two testimonies and theyre on the table over there. One was a testimony in may of 2010 before this committee, and it was based on a report that came out in july of 2009. And we were asked to look out how much progress had sba made in implementing the Small Business Disaster Response and improvement act of 2008. Its a mouthful. Ill now call it the 2008 act. Very important piece of legislation. It was a good way to look at progress sba had made from basically the problems that incurred during katrina and rita and it was also what remained to be done. The other thing we did was extensive fieldwork looking at the response of the 2008 disasters, which were of a smaller magnitude of katrina or sandy. It was the midwest floods and hurricane ike in particular where we did extensive fieldwork and we cou
Kevin ashton, tonight on the communicators, on cspan2. Tomorrow on washington journal, gretchen working set of morgansen talking about the Affordable Housing program. Vince is a girl soon talks about alcoholrelated problems and all fetal syndrome in drinking mothers. Washington on journal, life tuesday at 7 00 a. M. Eastern on cspan. Officials with the red cross talked about economic recovery, Agency Coordination and delivery efficiency. They were joined by representatives of the Small Business administration fema, and the private sector, during a hearing on postdisaster issues for Small Businesses. Davidundtable was held by vetter of louisiana to mark the anniversary continued. Katrina. This is about an hour. Senator vitter good morning everyone. Welcome. Thank you for joining me for this discussion roundtable about a very important ongoing challenge in relation to Disaster Recovery. Natural disasters are obviously indiscriminate, affecting life, property and livelihoods of families a
They will turn to journalists to recount what so many indoor it and what none of us can forget. Amid the devastating numbers more than 1800 lives lost. And more than 1 million americans displaced, a million homes destroyed across five states. 150 billion in economic damage. Amid all of those numbers, americans will also look for answers. How much progress have we made in the years since katrina particularly in new orleans which was the hardest hit community and what are we doing to continue supporting the housing and overall recovery in the affected communities . Today is about providing answers but its also about more than that. We are also reaffirming their commitment to the people of the gulf to continue working with them and for them until the job of recovery is complete. You see, as long as there are people who want to come home and communities that need to be rebuilt, our job is not done. Thats the true meaning of commemoration. Not to simply mark a day on our calendars but to en
Talk aboutd and change, survival, and knowledge. What it takes to know new orleans. We will start our entire conversation for the rest of the day, and i want you to know that we are going to i am going to come out and hang out with you. I want you to think about Smart Questions with this incredibly intimidating panel. Lis eric with lois an elie. He is one of the founders of the Southern Food waste alliance. , you saw the amazing maddie le cesne. Besides being an amazing poet, she is a rising princeton freshman, heading there next month. She just told me, the best part about the princeton schedule is that there is a break right around mardi gras time. [applause] she was nine years old in 2005, writing poetry on the headboard of the bed in her bedroom, which was eventually ruin, and washed away. Ben is the Founding Member of association in new orleans. Buildingerested in capacities of you, not just vietnamese youth. Chris rhodes is an author, pulitzer prizewinning journalist, and current