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• Verification Review: FEMA's Lack of Process for Tracking Public Assistance Insurance Requirements Places Billions of Tax Dollars at Risk

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  From the Document: "We conducted a verification review to determine whether the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) implemented recommendations from our fiscal year 2012 report, OIG [Office of Inspector General]-12-18, 'FEMA's Process for Tracking Public Assistance Insurance Requirements' (prior report), to reduce risk of the Federal Government paying for disaster damages that should be covered by a previous insurance requirement. To avoid wasteful and duplicative spending, it is crucial that FEMA identify all existing requirements for insurance. Due to FEMA's inability to develop an enterprise-wide insurance requirements tracking capability, billions of tax dollars distributed from the Disaster Relief Fund (DRF) since 2001, have been at risk to fraud, waste, and abuse."

  United States. Department of Homeland Security. Office of Inspector General

  2017-06-09
• Qatar: Governance, Security, and U.S. Policy [June 9, 2017]

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  "The state of Qatar, a member of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC: Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar, United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, and Oman), has employed its ample financial resources to try to 'punch above its weight' on regional and international affairs. Qatar has intervened, directly and indirectly, in several regional conflicts, including in Syria and Libya. Qatar also has sought to establish itself as an indispensable interlocutor on some issues, such as those involving the Palestinian Islamist organization Hamas, the Taliban insurgent group in Afghanistan, some Al Qaeda-linked Syrian rebel groups, Lebanon, and Sudan. On Iran, Qatar has generally supported efforts to limit Iran's regional influence while maintaining dialogue with Iran's senior officials. [...] As do the other GCC leaders, Qatar's leaders apparently view the United States as the guarantor of Gulf security. The United States and Qatar have had a formal Defense Cooperation Agreement (DCA) since 1992, which addresses a U.S. troop presence in Qatar, consideration of U.S. arms sales to Qatar, U.S. training, and other defense cooperation. Under the DCA, Qatar hosts nearly 10,000 U.S. forces at its military facilities, including at the large Al Udeid Air Base, and Qatar also hosts the regional headquarters for U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM). U.S. forces in Qatar participate in operations all over the region, including Operation Inherent Resolve (OIR) against the Islamic State organization in Iraq and Syria, and in Afghanistan."

  Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service

  Katzman, Kenneth

  2017-06-09
• MMWR: Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, June 9, 2017

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  The Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) Series is prepared by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). [It] is the agency's primary vehicle for scientific publication of timely, reliable, authoritative, accurate, objective, and useful public health information and recommendations. This issue of MMWR contains the following articles: "Hospitalizations for Endocarditis and Associated Health Care Costs Among Persons with Diagnosed Drug Dependence -- North Carolina, 2010-2015"; "Measures Taken to Prevent Zika Virus Infection During Pregnancy -- Puerto Rico, 2016"; "Japanese Encephalitis Surveillance and Immunization -- Asia and Western Pacific Regions, 2016"; "Vital Signs: Health Care-Associated Legionnaires' Disease Surveillance Data from 20 States and a Large Metropolitan Area -- United States, 2015"; "Notes from the Field: Two Cases of Legionnaires' Disease in Newborns After Water Births -- Arizona, 2016"; and "QuickStats: Average Number of Deaths from Motor Vehicle Injuries, Suicide, and Homicide, by Day of the Week -- National Vital Statistics System, United States, 2015." Notifiable Diseases and Mortality Tables from this issue can be accessed at the following link [https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/index2017.html]

  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.)

  2017-06-09
• After Action Report/Improvement Plan: Diablo Canyon Power Plant [March 29, 2017]

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  From the Executive Summary: "The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Region IX National Preparedness Division, Technological Hazards Branch, evaluated a Medical Services Exercise (MS-1) on March 29, 2017, for local emergency Off-site Response Organizations (ORO). Evaluations were conducted at French Hospital Medical Center (FHMC), the County of San Luis Obispo (SLO) Sheriff's Dispatch - Medical Communications (MEDCOM), and San Luis Ambulance (SLA) that are located in the County of SLO. [...] No Level 1 (L1) or Level 2 (L2) Findings were identified during the MS-1 conducted at FHMC. In Summary: The OROs successfully demonstrated that their RERP [Radiological Emergency Response Plans] and procedures can be adequately implemented in response to a radiological incident occurring at or within the vicinity of DCPP [Diablo Canyon Power Plant]. This action maintains continued reasonable assurance that emergency safety measures can be taken to protect the health and safety of the public in the event of a radiological incident occurring at or within the vicinity of DCPP."

  United States. Federal Emergency Management Agency

  2017-06-09
• EPA Science Advisory Board: Policy Statement on Science Quality and Integrity

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  "In formulating rules to protect the environment and public health, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) relies on advice from scientific and technical experts. EPA's Science Advisory Board (SAB) is one source of scientific and technical advice for EPA. [...] As a federal advisory committee, the SAB must comply with the Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA). Among other things, FACA requires that EPA establish uniform administrative guidelines and management controls for its advisory committees. An explanatory statement accompanying the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2016 directed EPA to develop an updated policy statement on science quality and integrity for the SAB. According to the explanatory statement, the policy statement should include (1) goals on increasing membership from states and tribes; (2) an evaluation of potential bias, if EPA's Administrator decides that financial-related metrics are appropriate to identify conflicts of interest or bias; and (3) direction on treating public comments. The explanatory statement also directed EPA to submit a draft of the policy statement to GAO [Government Accountability Office] for review and included a provision for GAO to review the updated policy statement and determine whether the updated policy met the intent of the explanatory statement."

  United States. Government Accountability Office

  2017-06-08
• Privacy Impact Assessment for the National Fire Incident Reporting System (NFIRS)

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  "The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), United States Fire Administration (USFA), National Fire Programs (NFP), National Fire Data Center (NFDC) owns and operates the National Fire Incident Reporting System (NFIRS). NFIRS is an information technology (IT) system that collects and maintains data associated with emergency responses by fire departments nationwide to analyze and measure the national fire problem as directed by USFA. FEMA is conducting this Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) because NFIRS may contain personally identifiable information (PII) of fire casualties, property owners, fire and emergency medical service personnel, and other persons involved in the incidents."

  United States. Department of Homeland Security

  2017-06-08
• European Security and Islamist Terrorism [June 8, 2017]

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  "The June 3, 2017 attack in London--in which eight people were killed and nearly 50 injured--was the third terrorist incident in the United Kingdom in the last few months. Five people were killed outside the UK parliament in March in a similar car and knife attack, and in May, a suicide bomber killed 22 people and wounded 116 at a music concert in Manchester. These incidents are among a string of terrorist attacks in Europe connected to or inspired by violent Islamist extremism, with many since 2014 linked to the Islamic State group (also known as ISIS or ISIL)."

  Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service

  Archick, Kristin; Belkin, Paul; Mix, Derek E.

  2017-06-08
• U.S. Foreign Aid to the Middle East and North Africa: The President's FY2018 Request [June 8, 2017]

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  "For FY2018, the Trump Administration proposes to cut 12% of overall bilateral aid to the Middle East and North Africa (from FY2016 enacted levels), primarily by ending Foreign Military Financing (FMF) grants to Bahrain, Iraq, Lebanon, Morocco, Oman, and Tunisia. However, these countries may continue to receive grant or loan aid from a proposed $200 million FMF 'global fund,' possibly convert from FMF grants to FMF loans beginning in FY2018, or receive no FMF assistance at all. U.S. security assistance to MENA [Middle East and North Africa] countries could also be channeled through Defense Department appropriations accounts rather than through State Department and Foreign Operations appropriations. If enacted, the Administration's FY2018 proposed cuts to FMF for the region would make the traditional recipients of FMF grants (Israel, Egypt, and Jordan) account for 100% of all regional FMF grant aid and 92% of all global grant FMF aid. While the President's FY2018 budget request claims that FMF loans will allow recipients to 'purchase more American-made defense equipment and related services than they would receive with the same amount of grant funding,' some lawmakers argue that converting FMF grants to loans would 'require poorer countries to reimburse the United States (which past experience has shown they are unable to do) for assistance that is in our security interest to provide to them.'"

  Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service

  Sharp, Jeremy Maxwell

  2017-06-08
• Quorum Requirements in the Senate: Committee and Chamber [June 8, 2017]

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  "Senate Rule XXVI establishes minimum quorum requirements for four areas of committee activity. [...] Senate committees have discretion in adjusting the minimum quorum requirements mandated in Rule XXVI so long as they adopt rules that are 'not inconsistent with the Rules of the Senate.' For instance, most committees allow a single Senator to take testimony at a hearing rather than the one-third required by Rule XXVI. Committees cannot change the majority physically present quorum needed for reporting a measure. Proxy voting is allowed under Senate rules on a vote to report a matter, but a majority must be physically present and proxy votes cannot make a difference in successfully ordering a measure reported."

  Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service

  Rybicki, Elizabeth

  2017-06-08
• Broadband Data Privacy and Security: What's Net Neutrality Got to Do With It? [June 8, 2017]

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  From the Document: "This Sidebar is the third in a series discussing the potential impact of the Federal Communications Commission's proposal to reclassify broadband Internet access services (BIAS). This Sidebar focuses on the proposal's possible effect on the regulation of BIAS providers' privacy practices."

  Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service

  2017-06-08
• Information Technology Management Letter for the Federal Emergency Management Agency Component of the FY 2016 Department of Homeland Security Financial Statement Audit

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  From the Highlights: "Each year, our independent auditors identify component-level information technology (IT) control deficiencies as part of the DHS consolidated financial statement audit. This letter provides details that were not included in the fiscal year (FY) 2016 DHS Agency Financial Report."

  United States. Department of Homeland Security. Office of Inspector General

  2017-06-08
• Information Technology Management Letter for the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement Component of the FY 2016 Department of Homeland Security Financial Statement Audit

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  From the Highlights: "Each year, our independent auditors identify component-level information technology (IT) control deficiencies as part of the DHS consolidated financial statement audit. This letter provides details that were not included in the fiscal year (FY) 2016 DHS Agency Financial Report."

  United States. Department of Homeland Security. Office of Inspector General

  2017-06-08
• Oversight Hearing on Burdensome Litigation and Federal Bureaucratic Roadblocks to Manage our Nation's Overgrown, Fire-Prone National Forests, Hearing before the Subcommittee on Federal Lands of the Committee on Natural Resources, United States House of Representatives, One Hundred Fifteenth Congress, First Session, June 8, 2017

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  This is a testimony compilation of the June 8, 2017 hearing 'Oversight Hearing on Burdensome Litigation and Federal Bureaucratic Roadblocks to Manage our Nation's Overgrown, Fire-Prone National Forests' held before the U.S. House Committee on Natural Resources. From the hearing memo: "The hearing will focus on the adverse impact of litigation to national forests; added requirements and compliance challenges posed by internal Forest Service processes and by other agencies; and, the tragic impacts of these policies on America's overgrown and fire-prone federal forests." Statements, letters, and materials submitted for the record include those of the following: Tom McClintock, Lyle Laverty, Lawson Fite, Bruce Hallin, and Susan Jane M. Brown.

  United States. Congress. House. Committee on Natural Resources

  2017-06-08
• Department of the Interior- Budget Hearing, Hearing before the Subcommittee on Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies of the Committee on Appropriations, United States House of Representatives, One Hundred Fifteenth Congress, First Session, June 8, 2017

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  This is the June 8, 2017 hearing on "Department of Energy - Budget Hearing," held before the U.S. House Committee on Appropriations, Subcommittee on Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies. From the opening statement of Ken Calvert: "This morning's hearing marks the beginning of a very candid conversation about your Department's funding priorities. Overall, the President's fiscal year 2018 budget request provides $10.6 billion in discretionary funding for Department of the Interior programs under this subcommittee's jurisdiction, which is $1.6 billion or 13 percent below the fiscal year 2017 enacted level. At the outset, let me state the obvious: this is going to be a challenging year." Statements, letters, and materials submitted for the record include those of the following: Ken Calvert, Rodney Frelinghuysen, Ryan Zinke, Olivia Ferriter, and Denise Flanagan.

  United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations

  2017-06-08
• EMR-ISAC: InfoGram, Volume 17 Issue 23 [June 8, 2017]

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  The Emergency Management and Response Information Sharing and Analysis Center's (EMR-ISAC) InfoGram is a weekly publication of information concerning the protection of critical infrastructures relevant to members of the Emergency Services Sector. This issue includes the following articles: "Fentanyl: A Briefing Guide for First Responders," "Updated Active Shooter Response Resources," "2017 Mitigation Planning Webinars Continue," and "Apply for National EMS Advisory Council."

  Emergency Management and Response-Information Sharing and Analysis Center (U.S.)

  2017-06-08
• Security Executive Agent Directive 4: National Security Adjudicative Guidelines (Effective: 08 June 2017)

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  "This Security Executive Agent (SecEA) Directive establishes the single, common adjudicative criteria for all covered all individuals who require initial or continued eligibility for access to classified information or eligibility to hold a sensitive position. The Guidelines reflected herein supersede all previously issued national security adjudicative criteria or guidelines."

  United States. Office of the Director of National Intelligence

  2017-06-08
• U.S. Strategy for Engagement in Central America: Policy Issues for Congress [June 8, 2017]

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  "Central America has received renewed attention from U.S. policymakers over the past few years as the region has become a major transit corridor for illicit drugs and a significant source of irregular migration to the United States. These narcotics and migrant flows are the latest symptoms of deep-rooted challenges in several countries in the region, including widespread insecurity, fragile political and judicial systems, and high levels of poverty and unemployment. Although the Obama Administration and governments in the region launched new initiatives designed to improve conditions in Central America, the future of those efforts will depend on the decisions of the Trump Administration and the 115th Congress."

  Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service

  Meyer, Peter J.

  2017-06-08
• Nominations of Brock Long to Be Administrator, Federal Emergency Management Agency, U.S. Department of Homeland Security; Russell Vought to Be Deputy Director, Office of Management and Budget; and Neomi Rao to Be Administrator, Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Office of Management and Budget, Hearing Before the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, U.S. Senate, One Hundred Fifteenth Congress, First Session, June 7, 2017

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  This testimony compilation is from the June 7, 2017 hearing on "Nominations of Brock Long to be Administrator, Federal Emergency Management Agency, U.S. Department of Homeland Security; Russell Vought to be Deputy Director, Office of Management and Budget; and Neomi Rao to be Administrator, Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Office of Management and Budget," held before the U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. From the opening statement of Ron Johnson: "Today the Committee will consider three nominations within its jurisdiction that are integral to the efficient functioning of government and the safety of the American people." Statements, letters, and materials submitted for the record include those of the following: Brock Long, Russell Vought, and Neomi Rao.

  United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs

  2017-06-07
• Congressional Budget Office Cost Estimate: H.R. 613: Lieutenant Osvaldo Albarati Correctional Officer Self-Protection Act of 2017

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  "H.R. 613 would require the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) to either provide its law enforcement officers with a secure storage area outside of federal penal and correctional institutions to store firearms or permit storage in a BOP-approved lock box within officers' vehicles. The bill also would allow BOP officers to carry concealed firearms outside of the secure perimeter of the institution where they work. Based on information from the Department of Justice, CBO [Congressional Budget Office] estimates that implementing H.R. 613 would have a negligible cost because BOP would probably opt to have the officers store their firearms in a lockbox within their vehicles. Enacting H.R. 613 would not affect direct spending or revenues; therefore, pay-as-you-go procedures do not apply. CBO estimates that enacting H.R. 613 would not increase net direct spending or on-budget deficits in any of the four consecutive 10-year periods beginning in 2028."

  United States. Congressional Budget Office

  2017-06-07
• Congressional Budget Office Cost Estimate: H.R. 2131: Fixing Internal Response to Misconduct Act

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  "H.R. 2131 would direct the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to standardize its policies on handling employee misconduct and discipline and to ensure the consistent application of those policies throughout its component agencies (such as the Coast Guard and the Secret Service). Based on information from DHS, CBO [Congressional Budget Office] estimates that implementing the bill's provisions would cost less than $500,000 annually; such spending would be subject to the availability of appropriated funds. Enacting the bill would not affect direct spending or revenues; therefore, pay-as-you-go procedures do not apply. CBO estimates that enacting H.R. 2131 would not increase net direct spending or on-budget deficits in any of the four consecutive 10-year periods beginning in 2028."

  United States. Congressional Budget Office

  2017-06-07
• Fiscal Year 2018 Priorities and Posture of Missile Defeat Programs and Activities, Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Strategic Forces of the Committee on Armed Services, United States House of Representatives, One Hundred Fifteenth Congress, First Session, June 7, 2017

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  This testimony compilation is from the June 7, 2017 hearing on "Fiscal Year 2018 Priorities and Posture of Missile Defeat Programs and Activities" before the U.S. House Committee on Armed Services. This hearing was an opportunity for witnesses to present information on missile defense capabilities of the U.S. Strategic Command. Statements, letters, and materials submitted for the record include those of the following: James Dickinson, Todd Harvey, Barry Pike, and James Syring.

  United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services

  2017-06-07
• Navy Force Structure and Shipbuilding Plans: Background and Issues for Congress [June 7, 2017]

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  "The current and planned size and composition of the Navy, the rate of Navy ship procurement, and the prospective affordability of the Navy's shipbuilding plans have been oversight matters for the congressional defense committees for many years. The Navy's proposed FY2018 budget, as amended on May 24, 2017, requests the procurement of nine new ships, including one Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78) class aircraft carrier, two Virginia-class attack submarines, two DDG-51 class destroyers, two Littoral Combat Ships (LCSs), one TAO-205 class oiler, and one towing, salvage, and rescue ship. On December 15, 2016, the Navy released a new force-structure goal that calls for achieving and maintaining a fleet of 355 ships of certain types and numbers."

  Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service

  O'Rourke, Ronald

  2017-06-07
• UPDATE: What Constitutes "Sexual Abuse of a Minor" For Immigration Purposes? [June 7, 2017]

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  "UPDATE: On May 30, 2017, the Supreme Court issued a decision in Esquivel-Quintana v. Sessions, holding that, in the context of statutory rape offenses that criminalize sexual intercourse based solely on the ages of the participants, the term 'sexual abuse of a minor'-as employed by the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA)-requires the age of the victim to be less than 16. The Court based its holding on legal dictionary definitions of 'age of consent,' as well as provisions of the INA which 'suggest[ed] that sexual abuse of a minor encompasses only especially egregious felonies.' The Court also considered 18 U.S.C. § 2243(a), the 'closely related' federal criminal statute for sexual abuse of a minor, as further evidence of the age requirement under the INA. Finally, the Court turned to state statutory rape provisions, the majority of which set the age of consent at 16, for additional guidance. Based on this context, the Court reversed the Board of Immigration Appeals' interpretation of 'sexual abuse of a minor,' which had included statutory rape offenses where the victim is under 18. Notably, because the Court determined that there was no ambiguity in the meaning of 'sexual abuse of a minor,' the Court declined to address whether the rule of lenity (which calls for resolving any ambiguity in the defendant's favor) applied, or whether the Board's interpretation was subject to deference. The Court, however, limited its holding to statutory rape offenses based solely on the ages of the participants, and it left open the questions of whether sexual abuse of a minor requires a particular age differential between the victim and the perpetrator, or whether the offense includes sexual intercourse involving victims over the age of 16 that is abusive because of the nature of the relationship between the participants."

  Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service

  2017-06-07
• Implementation of Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) Amendments (P.L. 114-182) [June 7, 2017]

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  "Since President Obama signed the Frank R. Lautenberg Chemical Safety for the 21st Century Act (P.L. 114-182) on June 22, 2016, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has been implementing the act's amendments to Title I of the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA; 15 U.S.C. 2601-2629). TSCA as amended establishes a framework to identify commercial chemicals that present unreasonable risks and to regulate the product life cycle of a chemical (i.e., manufacture or importation, processing, distribution, use, and disposal) so that it no longer presents unreasonable risk. Nearly one year after the enactment of P.L. 114-182, EPA continues to take steps toward potential regulation of existing chemicals under the amended statute, though it has not promulgated any regulation that restricts activities associated with the existing use of any chemical. This CRS ( Congressional Research Service) Insight summarizes select EPA actions to implement the TSCA amendments."

  Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service

  Yen, Jerry H.

  2017-06-07
• When an Agency's Budget Request Does Not Match the President's Request: The FY2018 CFTC Request and 'Budget Bypass' [June 7, 2017]

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  "The Trump Administration released its first full budget request on May 23, 2017, for FY2018. Like other recent presidential budget requests, it includes an Appendix chapter for independent agencies such as the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). Notably, the Trump Administration's budget request for CFTC does not equal the amount requested directly by the agency in its budget justification submitted to Congress. Specifically: [1] The Trump Administration's FY2018 request for CFTC is $250 million, [2] CFTC's Budget Justification submitted to Congress requests $281.5 million."

  Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service

  Monke, James; Miller, Rena S.

  2017-06-07
• Air Force B-21 Raider Long-Range Strike Bomber [June 7, 2017]

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  "The Department of Defense is developing a new long-range bomber aircraft, the B-21 Raider (previously known as LRS-B), and proposes to acquire at least 100 of them. B-21s would initially replace aging B-1 and B-52 bombers, and would possibly replace B-2s in the future. B-21 development was highly classified until the summer of 2015, when the Air Force revealed initial details of the aircraft and the program. Although technical specifications and other data remain out of public view, many details of the budget, acquisition strategy, procurement quantities, and other aspects of the B-21 program are now in the public arena. The Administration's FY2018 budget request includes $2.0 billion for further development of the B-21. As a new and large defense program that involves issues of defense and nuclear policy, as well as substantial expenditures, the B-21 is likely to be subject to significant congressional interest."

  Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service

  Gertler, Jeremiah

  2017-06-07
• Iran Sanctions [June 7, 2017]

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  "As part of a shift to assertively counter Iran's regional activities and strategic weapons programs, the Trump Administration has designated for sanctions additional missile and IRGC-Qods Force entities. The Administration asserts its steps do not conflict with U.S. commitments under the JCPOA [Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action] and the Administration has continued to implement the agreement, including renewing waivers of sanctions laws suspended in accordance with the JCPOA. However, the Administration has announced an Iran policy review and, were the Administration to decide to end U.S. participation in the JCPOA, it could revoke waivers, decline to renew waivers, or sign new sanctions legislation or issue Executive Orders that breach the JCPOA. Some Iran sanctions legislation has advanced in the 115th Congress, such as S. 722. The reimposition of many or all U.S. sanctions would undoubtedly harm Iran's economy. "

  Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service

  Katzman, Kenneth

  2017-06-07
• Shift in the International Security Environment: Potential Implications for Defense-Issues for Congress [June 7, 2017]

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  "World events have led some observers, starting in late 2013, to conclude that the international security environment has undergone a shift from the familiar post-Cold War era of the past 20 to 25 years, also sometimes known as the unipolar moment (with the United States as the unipolar power), to a new and different situation that features, among other things, renewed great power competition with China and Russia and challenges by these two countries and others to elements of the U.S.-led international order that has operated since World War II. A previous change in the international security environment-the shift in the late 1980s and early 1990s from the Cold War to the post-Cold War era-prompted a broad reassessment by the Department of Defense (DOD) and Congress of defense funding levels, strategy, and missions that led to numerous changes in DOD plans and programs. Many of these changes were articulated in the 1993 Bottom-Up Review (BUR), a reassessment of U.S. defense plans and programs whose very name conveyed the fundamental nature of the reexamination that had occurred."

  Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service

  O'Rourke, Ronald

  2017-06-07
• Flood Insurance Reform: A Taxpayer's Perspective, Hearing before the Committee on Financial Services, United States House of Representatives, One Hundred Fifteenth Congress, First Session, June 7, 2017

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  This is the June 7, 2017 hearing on "Flood Insurance Reform: A Taxpayer's Perspective," held before the U.S. House Committee on Financial Services. From the hearing memorandum: "This hearing will examine the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) and six legislative concepts to reform the program. Accordingly, witnesses will discuss how the reforms would strengthen taxpayer protections; provide greater private market access, competition, and consumer choice; enhance mitigation efforts; encourage flood mapping fairness; address consumer costs and affordability; and incorporate NFIP claims processing reforms." Statements, letters, and materials submitted for the record include those of the following: Steve Ellis, Caitlin Berni, Josh Saks, Rebecca Kagan Sternhell, R.J. Lehmann.

  United States. Congress. House. Committee on Financial Services

  2017-06-07
• H.A.S.C. No. 115-53: Combat Aviation Modernization Programs and the Fiscal Year 2018 Budget Request, Hearing on National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2018 and Oversight of Previously Authorized Programs Before the Committee on Armed Services, House of Representatives, Subcommittee on Tactical Air and Land Forces Hearing, One Hundred Fifteenth Congress, First Session, June 7, 2017

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  This is the June 7, 2017 hearing on "Combat Aviation Modernization Programs and the Fiscal Year 2018 Budget Request," held before the U.S. House Committee on Armed Services, Subcommittee on Tactical Air and Land Forces. From the opening statement of Michael R. Turner: "The subcommittee meets today to review the Navy, Marine Corps, and Air Force aviation investment and modernization budget request for fiscal year [FY] 2018." Statements, letters, and materials submitted for the record include those of the following: Arnold W. Bunch, Jerry D. Harris, Paul A. Grosklags, Jon M. Davis, and DeWolfe H. Miller III.

  United States. Government Publishing Office

  2017-06-07