Transportation

By Peter Cordi The Transportation and Infrastructure Committee is holding a hearing at 10 a.m. to grill FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell on the “failure of leadership” that resulted in supporters of President-elect Donald Trump being discriminated against during Hurricane Helene disaster relief. All 35 Republicans on the committee, led by Chairman Sam Graves… Read more »

By  Leif Le Mahieu Pennsylvania Republican Rep. Scott Perry told The Daily Wire he was not satisfied with FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell’s answers during a Tuesday hearing on an agency employee’s instruction to relief workers to skip homes with Trump flags or signs. Perry, the chair of the subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings, and Emergency Management,… Read more »

By Justin Harclerode  Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Republicans today demanded answers from Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Administrator Deanne Criswell about her agency’s troubling responses to recent disasters and crises, including the amount… Read more »

By Peter Cordi  An oversight letter sent Thursday by Rep. Sam Graves (R-MO), Transportation and Infrastructure Committee chairman, and Rep. Scott Perry (R-PA) demands the Federal Emergency Management Agency provide a detailed briefing on the agency’s response to Trump supporters being skipped during canvassing. The committee, which has legislative… Read more »

By  Leif Le Mahieu House lawmakers overseeing FEMA ripped into Administrator Deanne Criswell on Thursday, demanding answers after one of her employees instructed relief workers to skip the homes of Trump supporters in Florida.  In a letter from 35 Republicans on the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee shared with The Daily Wire, the lawmakers… Read more »

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Washington, D.C. - Opening remarks, as prepared, of Economic Development, Public Buildings, and Emergency Management Subcommittee Chairman Scott Perry (R-PA) from today’s hearing, entitled, “Examining the Role and Effectiveness of Building Codes in Mitigating Against Disasters”: I want to thank our witnesses for being here today to discuss the effectiveness of building codes and the… Read more »

By  Justin Harclerode Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings, and Emergency Management Chairman Scott Perry (R-PA) announced that the Subcommittee will hold a hearing to examine the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) implementation of policies related to building codes in its programs, including the Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities (BRIC)… Read more »

By Justin Doubleday The Federal Protective Service’s new IT system for managing thousands of federal security guards doesn’t work properly after more than five years of development. The “Post Tracking System,” or PTS, has been in the works since 2018. FPS is now trying to deploy the system across all its guard contracts through the end of this year. FPS contracts with private… Read more »

By U.S. Rep. Scott Perry OPINION: The federal government is incredibly skilled at one thing finding new and abhorrent ways to waste your hard-earned tax dollars. Here’s one way you might not be aware of: federally funding automatic traffic enforcement systems like red light and speed cameras in Washington, D.C. and across our nation. These photo enforcement programs are revenue… Read more »