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Last Updated: | Testimony

Written testimony of the FEMA for a House Homeland Security Subcommittee on Emergency Preparedness, Response, and Communications hearing titled "Five Years Later: An Assessment of the Post Katrina Emergency Management Reform Act"

The importance of PKEMRA to the emergency management community cannot be stressed enough. For the first time, it gave FEMA clear guidance on its mission and priorities, and provided us with the authorities and tools we needed to become a more effective and efficient agency, and a better partner to state, local, territorial, and tribal governments.

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Written testimony of the FEMA for a Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs' Ad Hoc Subcommittee on Disaster Recovery and Intergovernmental Affairs hearing titled "Accountability at FEMA: Is Quality Job #1?"

Testimony on the FEMA's successes in improving the accountability and performance of their disaster-related programs. And also their quality assurance processes and internal financial controls.

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Testimony of Secretary Janet Napolitano before the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary

Secretary Janet Napolitano before the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary

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Written Statement of Region VI Administrator Tony Russell, Federal Emergency Management Agency before the U.S. House Committee on Homeland Security’s Subcommittee on Oversight, Investigations, and Management

It is an honor to appear before you today on behalf of FEMA to discuss the federal disaster process and the recent fires in Texas. In my testimony today, I will describe the federal disaster declaration process, FEMA’s response and recovery programs, and how these programs and assistance have been applied to the recent wildfires.

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Testimony of the Honorable Tara O’Toole, M.D., M.P.H. before the U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs

It is an honor to appear before you today to discuss the state of U.S biodefense ten years after letters containing Bacillus anthracis or “anthrax” killed five people and sickened seventeen others and to report on the biodefense portfolio within the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T).

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Written testimony of the OHA for a Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs hearing titled "Ten Years After 9/11 and the Anthrax Attacks: Protecting Against Biological Threats?"

Written Statement of Assistant Secretary for Health Affairs and Chief Medical Officer Alexander G. Garza, MD, MPH, Department of Homeland Security, before the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, "Ten Years After 9/11 and the Anthrax Attacks: Protecting Against Biological Threats?"

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Written Statement of Craig Fugate, Admin., Federal Emergency Management Agency, before House Comm on Transportation & Infrastructure, Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings, & Emergency Management:"Streamlining Emergency Management: Improv

FEMA Administrator Craig Fugate discussed FEMA efforts to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of FEMA's recovery activities.

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Written testimony of the USCG for a House Committee on Natural Resources hearing titled "Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement/U.S. Coast Guard Joint Investigation Team Report"

USCG Admiral Brian Salerno discussed the Coast Guard’s Final Action on the Coast Guard Volume – Volume I – of the Joint Investigation Team report.

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Written testimony of the USCH for a House Committee on Natural Resources hearing titled "BOEMRE/U.S. Coast Guard Joint Investigation Team Report"

Coast Guard Captain Hung Nguyen discussed the Coast Guard's contributions to the Deepwater Horizon Joint Investigation Team Report.

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Statement for the record of the ICE for a House Committee on Foreign Affairs hearing titled "No Safe Haven: Law Enforcement Operations Against Human Rights Violators in the U.S."

John Woods discussed the role that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) plays in ensuring the United States does not become a safe haven for human rights abusers.