Her agency can help with recovery of various areas by. Live coverage of this hearing on cspan three cspan3. As a reminder, please email it to documentsti mail. House. Gov. I want to thank our witness, the honorable. Is it deeann or deanna . For being here today. We are focusing on the current state of femas readiness, response, and recovery. Core mission is to help people before, during, and after disasters. Unfortunately, fema has added layers and adopted political agendas. The Biden Administration is imposing an agenda focused on Climate Change and equity which is diverging away from femas core mission. On august 28, the committee was alerted that the Disaster Relief fund would move to immediate needs funding until additional funds are appropriated. Federal reimbursements, recognized tribes for longterm disaster cover, projects are halted. Instead, the remaining balance is reserved for any Immediate Response activities. First asked fema in february. It is a long time ago now what it
To ask questions. Without objective, thats so ordered. Can would like to welcome everybody to the hearing today. Its going to focus obviously on how we can build the 21st century infrastructure. And the committee is holding a host of hearings to gather ideas on what congress can do to achieve this goal. And today, were going to hear ideas from our highways and transit stakeholders. Gathering input from our stakeholders is essential to the process. That we use to again surface transportation policy. Its valuable in our efforts to pass the act, which was the first longterm highway bill in a decade, and were going to continue to need your assistance with future legislation. Even with the Additional Resources we provided, the nations surface Transportation System still needs additional investments. Enacting a long Term Solution for the Highway Trust Fund is a critical component to insuring we can address those needs long into the future. Since passage of the f. A. S. T. Act, building a con
Than 5,000 u. S. Troops stationed there, but he did not visit the Detention Center which once held nearly 800 inmates. 41 remaining including Khaled Sheikh mohammed, the 9 11 mastermind. The numbers for open enrollment in obamacare are out. About 8. 8 million enrolled in plans for next year through the federal healthcare. Gov marketplace that is 400,000 fewer than last year. The Trump Administration cut the Enrollment Period in half. And yesterday as part of the tax bill, the penalty for not having insurance was eliminated. And now to some of the other stories were following in tonights evening news feed. The Commerce Department said today the economy grew 3. 2 in the third quarter. Thats enough to give the u. S. The best backtoback gdp rates in three years. The murder rate in the nations 30 largest cities is down more than 5. 5 this year. That includes doubledigit decreases in houston, new york, and chicago. But murders have spiked in charlotte, north carolina, columbus, ohio, and por