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Today, the House Transportation Committee convenes to scrutinize the Federal Emergency Management Agency's (FEMA) approach to ...
Transportation and Infrastructure Committee leaders have introduced legislation in the U.S. House that could provide the most robust legislative reform of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA ...
FEMA is still paying Florida claims on 2024 storms amid debate about whether the federal agency should continue to exist.
“FEMA needs reform, sure, but we also need a vision for what reform looks like,” Labowitz said. House lawmakers released one draft bill this week aimed at jump-starting that discussion, but ...
Trump floated the idea of minimizing FEMA if not getting rid of it as a whole – a position he has softened his stance on ...
With hurricane season approaching and another Bush crony at the helm of FEMA, a few restive lawmakers are seeking real reform for the storm-tossed agency. Whether they will succeed is another story.
While state and local emergency response teams have long advocated for FEMA reform, ... that’s a policy discussion that will continue, ...
July 9 (Reuters) - U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem called on Wednesday for the Federal Emergency Management ...
Groups on the left and right are looking to use super-storm Sandy to advance federal flood insurance reform, groups involved in that debate told The Hill. Changes to Federal Emergency Management ...
There’s one piece of FEMA reform, however, that some may see as easier to digest. The National Flood Insurance Program is $23 billion in the red, by FEMA’s count, and it loses money steadily.
Tuesday, President Donald Trump said he wants to phase out FEMA after the 2025 hurricane season. ... R-Mo., and Rick Larsen, D-Wash., released a “discussion draft” of a FEMA reform bill.