Good morning. Welcome, everyone. I know that a quorum is present, and the committee is meeting today in a legislative hearing to hear testimony on this is not a drill, educated related response and recovery in the wake of Natural Disaster. Pursuant to Committee Rule 7c, Opening Statements are limited to the chair and the Ranking Member. This allows us to hear more from our witnesses sooner and provides all members with adequate time to ask questions. A small note this hearing was scheduled before we knew that this was going to be a short week. Votes will be called at 10 00, and members will go to vote. And mr. Allen has agreed to come back and continue the hearing so we can have here every witness testify. So i now recognize myself for making an Opening Statement. Today were here to examine the federal governments response to School Communities impacted by Natural Disasters and the diverse challenges our schools face on the road to recovery. We need to know what has gone right, what ha
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