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
Long its been, and how many people you guys start out with. So basically we opened the shelter on august 26, a day or two after the hurricane happened. When we opened the shelter here, the grp, we had over 10,000 residents staying here. Now we are moving into another shelter. The population has decreased over time as people find new accommodations. So right now we had, two days ago, a little less of around a thousand people. What we find new shelter. Where moving to the Houston Committee college warehouse, and thats the 1000 people you have where moving them to. Today so right now we only have half of those people around 400 people yesterday. We started the move and were able to move roughly half of the residence certainly will have around 400, and we have buses that we can take them to the new shelter. Obviously, their stuff goes with them. So we have two buses come to buses for their belongings, and the last bus is buses for the rest of them to accompany their belongings. So their be
Gee cspan traveled to houston for an update on the Hurricane Harvey Recovery Efforts in that city. Ne next, an American Red Cross official gives us a look behind the scenes at one of their shelters set up to help people displaced by the hurricane. He talks about the individual Financial Assistance available to those impacted by the storm. Start us off with when did this relief shelter open, how long its been and how many people started out with . Basically, when we opened the shelter around august 26th, a day or two after the hurricane happened. We had over 10,000 residents staying here. Now were moving into another shelter. Now the population has decreased over time as people find new accommodations. So right now we had we had two days ago a little less than a thousand people but we find a new shelter. Were moving to the Houston Community college warehouse, and theres where the last 1,000 people that we have here, thats where were moving them to. Today as of right now, we only have ha
Easily be a twoterm president , Democratic Party doesnt helping americans. Host thanks so much for the time. Come back again. Guest thank you. And for our last hour of the washington journal today, over turn our phone lines to you to hear about your experiences, current and past, Recovery Efforts. We want to hear specifically about federal programs that you have applied to and as we do that, we want to well be in a few members of congress to hear about the ongoing Recovery Efforts in districts. First, President Trump yesterday spoke about the ongoing federal the wake of hurricanes harvey, irma and bilateral meeting in new york. Hurricanes, the spoke with governor of texas doing and texas is really, really well. Those people are working hard effectively and you have a great governor and texas is coming out of that orrible Hurricane Harvey really, really well. Governor,very great rick scott, spoke with him. They were hit hard. They were hit hard. Very ey are doing very, well. Ahead of sc
Effective how we ultimately classified . At this point if the questions on there, at this point was to be classified openly as white, correct . That depends what omb decides. Thats something we are waiting. A good question. One of the standards that the office of management and budget is contemplating right now is whether mena should be a new minimum category. So they are going to make the decision whether that is the case or not. Right now the Census Bureau classifies mena under white and thats how we are proceeding forward until were told otherwise. We are going to move on to the other speakers and then well opened it up for a discussion as to before i know the pdc has been working on this issue literally since were founded about 37, 40 some years ago and i got involved when he came on board but i can tell you these guys test everything to death. They literally test where they put commas, so you may put this is a slow, arduous process, and it is, but as i say, well get there. Next i