See this restriction lifted. I think i can remind you hopes not a strategy and were hopeful that you all hopeful that you all will take the concern that is being expressed today about al import back to your smaller groups as you discuss opportunities going forward. Weve long been concerned about the extension of credit for ag transactions and trade. Hopefully i think tomorrow were going to try and take a move in the right direction. I think you guys have highlighted the number one thing that we think we can deal with, which is 908. I personally support lifting the embargo entirely. However, that may be a bridge too far for this congress. So weve got to take these baby steps. With that, i have a couple specific questions for you, under secretary. To date, the federal checkoff dollars have not been used with promotion for trade with cuba. Loose reasoning, i think almost an assumption, is that this is due to the language of tsra which precludes the use of any United States assistance incl
Other disasters would be less expensive and others were looking at, are we driving trends down . Are we seeing overall we contain overtime costs are we not, you know, doing things just because people always did it that way to really drive down the costs of every dollar we administer. I can give you things we work towards, case studies of disasters where we have done reductions versus what we would have spent before and show you trend. Youll show us metrics on outcomes . Yes, sir. Okay. Thank you, i look forward to hearing those. Back to the conversation with senator baldwin. You talked about grant programs, preparedness, and local First Responders and local agencies, and i certainly agree with that as governor after september 11th i can tell you directly what a difference the department of Homeland Security grants have made to our preparedness, and thats why i was concerned when i saw in the budget that you were proposing an 18 cut to preparedness grants, cut to training, and 1 prepond
Screeria nigeria. A look at two Agency Budget requests, first fee mas budget then a hearing on the department of transportations 2016 budget. And later Border Patrol officials discuss threats and security along the u. S. canadian border. Next fema administrator craig fugate renting his agencys 2016 Budget Proposal to a Senate Appropriations budget committee. It is for disaster radio preparedness and resiliency. From capitol hill. This is about an hour and a half. I call this hearing to order for the dhs appropriations subcommittee. Today will be id like to welcome administrator fugate, administrator of fee ma. I appreciate very much you being here, also senator shaheen appreciate you being here as well. Were here to discuss the fiscal 2016 budget for your agency. Before we get into the substance of your budget id like to take a moment and thank you for sending roy wright to fargo several weeks ago. It was very helpful and actually will pertain or his visit there pertains to one of the
That have capabilityies, we want to address that life safety immediate response, communications evacuation and sheltering. Thats pretty much something youre going to need to do in a lot of different events. This is our idea that grant dollars have build a lot of capability are looking at where do we need to put more emphasis. Our first work with dot is looking at training capabilities, we want to make sure Senior Executives in the fire service have the latest. But also looking into the Grant Programs and again as we see these threats emerging, because this is dual use, we do have capability, we always go to the consequences, what are the things we need to do if that happens. From a lot of Emergency Management preparedness grants which i again support this administrations recommendation and committee has done a lot of work there, those preparedness grants, those are some of the dollars they can be using to develop this community plans. There are other programs that are not part of fema
Humanitarian basis, but could you talk about the effect it could have if we were to actually lift the embargo . It will have i believe a tremendous impact on our ability to sell products and greatly increase the amount of products that were currently selling to cuba. Again right now you are looking at about 300 million worth. Again, the study by texas a m and American Farm bureau believe that formalized relations and lifting of the trade restrictions, that number could be in excess of 1 million. Illion. Billion. What this would also mean to the cuban people with the ability to purchase agricultural inputs, fertilizer seed, chemicals, and equipment, i think it would give them also the ability to have agricultural businesses produce more of what their actual demands are in the country. And create revenue throughout to the countryside and help the cuban people especially that live in the rural areas. I think it is a win for both of us, in my opinion. Mr. Under secretary, some have argued