A House Appropriations Committee panel will hold a hearing on the new disaster resilience Community Development Block Grant (which will actually be a competitive grant) proposed in the latest Administration-requested supplemental we reported on to our subscribers last week. For new subscribers who didn’t get that update, please email me and I’ll send it to…
The Administration send its third request for a post-disaster supplemental appropriation last Friday. Congress has already passed $35.8 billion for the hurricanes and flooding events plus $16 billion in debt forgiveness for the NFIP. This latest request is for $44 billion. Given the fact that this won’t be the last request for the slew of…
Recently, a House subcommittee held a roundtable discussion that focused on concepts that ought to be included in the next Water Resources Development Act (WRDA). Now that you won’t have any new House of Cards episodes to watch, you probably are looking for an hour or two to fill some of that void in your…
The House has passed a measure to make several significant changes to the National Flood Insurance program by a vote of 237-189. Of most immediate importance, it reauthorizes NFIP, whose statutory authorization expires on December 8th. The Chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, Rep. Jeb Hensarling (R-TX), has previously called the NFIP “a bankrupt…
* New ASA(CW) The Senate Armed Services Committee held a hearing last week on the nomination of R.D. James to be Assistant Secretary of the Army for Civil Works. Here’s a summary put together by my colleague, Zack Moody – Sen. Blount (R-MO) introduced James and vouched for him as a civil engineer, farmer, and…