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 ...

U.S. Rep. Daniel Webster just introduced bipartisan legislation for reforming the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).

Senator Welch says his bill is focused on empowering local communities specifically on when aid is available, who makes ...

FEMA is in need of serious reform. Disaster relief and response should be focused on the truly catastrophic, and DHS grants should be focused on those areas of greatest risk.

Proposed FEMA reform would speed up disaster funding, provide technical assistance to small towns, and protect pre-disaster ...

Federal legislation working its way through the U.S. Senate would reform FEMA rules to better allow for wildfire preparedness and recovery. Many of the changes addressed in the legislation were ...

Colorado joined a lawsuit with 19 other states to force the administration to restore a program started under the first Trump ...

The draft legislation co-sponsored by Graves would eliminate or streamline some FEMA programs. For example, the agency’s programs around housing would be reoriented with new provisions on direct ...

Since May 2018, FEMA has funded an additional $86.2 million in wildfire mitigation for 228 projects, providing increased protection to nearly 2,500 properties.

Overhauling the Stafford Act: Passed in 1974 and amended multiple times since, the Stafford Act defines the authorities and functions of federal disaster response. This powerful piece of legislation ...

The National Emergencies Act of 1976 gave Congress a legislative veto over presidential invocations of emergency power. But INS v. Chadha killed that route by invalidating the legislative veto.