At 7 00 a. M. Eastern. Chair brown the committee will come to order. Thank you to the witnesses for joining us. This hearing is a continuation of our efforts to enact longterm reauthorization of the Flood Insurance program and fip programs. It has been extended 28 times since december 2017. The latest extension will expire march 8 of this year. We will disclose we will discuss local leader perspectives and the challenge of potential solutions to the risks that flooding poses to committees across the country. So many issues, transportation, housing, each of these is a priority for this committee. These leaders know all too well, flooding is the most costly Natural Disaster facing the country. It is devastating to communities in every state. That is one good reason that mayor patterson is here from my state. Landuse patterns play a role in whether people want to and whether people want to admit it or not, Climate Change is only making it worse. It is making extreme weather events more fr
Chair brown the committee will come to order. Thank you to the witnesses for joining us. This hearing is a continuation of our efforts to enact longterm reauthorization of the Flood Insurance program and fip programs. It has been extended 28 times since december 2017. The latest extension will expire march 8 of this year. We will disclose we will discuss local leader perspectives and the challenge of potential solutions to the risks that flooding poses to committees across the country. So many issues, transportation, housing, each of these is a priority for this committee. These leaders know all too well, flooding is the most costly Natural Disaster facing the country. It is devastating to communities in every state. That is one good reason that mayor patterson is here from my state. Landuse patterns play a role in whether people want to and whether people want to admit it or not, Climate Change is only making it worse. It is making extreme weather events more frequent, less predictabl
At 7 00 a. M. Eastern. Chair brown the committee will come to order. Thank you to the witnesses for joining us. This hearing is a continuation of our efforts to enact longterm reauthorization of the Flood Insurance program and fip programs. It has been extended 28 times since december 2017. The latest extension will expire march 8 of this year. We will disclose we will discuss local leader perspectives and the challenge of potential solutions to the risks that flooding poses to committees across the country. So many issues, transportation, housing, each of these is a priority for this committee. These leaders know all too well, flooding is the most costly Natural Disaster facing the country. It is devastating to communities in every state. That is one good reason that mayor patterson is here from my state. Landuse patterns play a role in whether people want to and whether people want to admit it or not, Climate Change is only making it worse. It is making extreme weather events more fr
At 7 00 a. M. Eastern. Chair brown the committee will come to order. Thank you to the witnesses for joining us. This hearing is a continuation of our efforts to enact longterm reauthorization of the Flood Insurance program and fip programs. It has been extended 28 times since december 2017. The latest extension will expire march 8 of this year. We will disclose we will discuss local leader perspectives and the challenge of potential solutions to the risks that flooding poses to committees across the country. So many issues, transportation, housing, each of these is a priority for this committee. These leaders know all too well, flooding is the most costly Natural Disaster facing the country. It is devastating to communities in every state. That is one good reason that mayor patterson is here from my state. Landuse patterns play a role in whether people want to and whether people want to admit it or not, Climate Change is only making it worse. It is making extreme weather events more fr
partially correct. if, in fact, putin was hoping that one of the effects of him invadingef ukraine would be a brush back to nato, that he would be able to worry less aboute nato and somehow starti this war s would make that happ, sorry. when putin invaded ukraine there were 30 i countries in nato. now there are about to be 32. finland was the 31st country to join in april. that gave russia 800 more miles of border directly with a nato country. and now as of tonight we know that sweden is going to join natoat as well. sweden said months ago that they wanted to join, but this is something that really until today looked like it couldn t happen and that s because for a new country to join nato, it has to be a unanimous decision. all the nato countries have to agree with h the decision, if o country doesn t agree it doesn t happen. and inre the case of sweden it s an original nato it was a nato w member, a single nato country,in turkey, that said no. they saidid finland was okay