{"id":83103,"date":"2017-07-26T01:31:45","date_gmt":"2017-07-26T05:31:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=83103"},"modified":"2017-07-24T21:35:15","modified_gmt":"2017-07-25T01:35:15","slug":"tenney-senate-must-act-on-fema-reform-bills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=83103","title":{"rendered":"Tenney: Senate Must Act on FEMA Reform Bills"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Rep. Claudia Tenney<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Tenney calls on Senators Schumer and Gillibrand to Lead the Way in Urging Senate to Pass Bills to Bring Relief to Central New York Flooding Victims<\/em><\/p>\n

Today, Congresswoman Claudia Tenney (NY-22) is calling on the United States Senate to pass two FEMA reform bills, H.R. 1665 and H.R. 1679 to improve FEMA\u2019s disaster declaration process for communities and streamline Federal Emergency Management Agency\u2019s claims processing. Both bills were passed by the House, have been referred to the Senate and await further action before the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.<\/p>\n

FEMA\u2019s current process for damage assessment disadvantages counties in populous states as too often local communities that sustain significant damages do not qualify for the federal assistance they need and deserve. H.R. 1665 would direct FEMA to give greater weight and consideration to localized damage when determining eligibility for federal disaster assistance. The FEMA Accountability, Modernization and Transparency Act, H.R. 1679, will require FEMA to develop an online interface for applicants to complete claims, submit photos and other supporting evidence and review the status of their application, while improving information sharing between state, local and federal agencies.<\/p>\n

\u201cSenator Schumer and Senator Gillibrand must lead the way in urging the Senate to take up and pass two commonsense bills that will provide important reforms in the FEMA claims processing. As the recent flooding throughout Central New York makes clear, there is much more that Congress can do to improve how FEMA works for both residents and municipalities alike,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0said Congresswoman Claudia Tenney.\u201cThat\u2019s why the House unanimously passed H.R. 1665 which will finally level the playing field for Upstate communities that are disadvantaged by FEMA\u2019s current disaster assessment formula. Additionally, H.R. 1679 will begin to streamline and modernize the FEMA claims process while modernizing information sharing between state, local and federal agencies. Our constituents have struggled from the recent flooding for too long. The Senate must take up these important bills to help provide Central New Yorkers with the relief that they deserve and need.\u201d
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In a letter to Senator Schumer and Senator Gillibrand, Tenney noted \u201dGiven the important impact they [H.R. 1665, H.R. 1679] would have for the constituents we both serve, I urge you to do all you can to bring them up for consideration.\u201d<\/p>\n

Directly following the flooding earlier this month, Tenney\u00a0urged<\/a>\u00a0Governor Cuomo to conduct the damage assessments needed to request a Federal Disaster Declaration in response to severe flash flooding in Oneida, Madison, and Herkimer counties over the July 4th weekend. In addition, Rep. Tenney called on the Governor to work closely with local officials and the state\u2019s Department of Environmental Conservation to comprehensively examine this most recent case of flooding, which unfortunately has become all too common for residents. In July 2013 and July 2014, federal disaster declarations were issued for similar areas after devastating floods caused millions of dollars in damage.<\/p>\n

Throughout the past month, Rep. Tenney\u2019s office has been in close contact with FEMA, local and state officials and Rep. Tenney has visited a number of homes, businesses and towns damaged by the flooding.<\/p>\n

For more information, visit\u00a0https:\/\/tenney.house.gov\/flood-assistance<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The full text of the letter can be found at tenney.house.gov\/sites\/tenney.house.gov\/files\/wysiwyg_uploaded\/FEMA Legislation Letter to Senator Schumer and Senator Gillibrand.pdf<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tenney calls on Senators Schumer and Gillibrand to Lead the Way in Urging Senate to Pass Bills to Bring Relief to Central New York Flooding Victims Today, Congresswoman Claudia Tenney (NY-22) is calling on the United States Senate to pass two FEMA reform bills, H.R. 1665 and H.R. 1679 to improve FEMA\u2019s disaster declaration process […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":79326,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[23811,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national","category-top-story"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p43meu-lCn","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/CT-HEADSHOT.jpg?fit=2030%2C2840&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=83103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83103\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/79326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=83103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=83103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=83103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}