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).

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 ...

FEMA needs to be 'saved' and 'reformed,' says Democratic Rep. Jared Moskowitz. Reps. Byron Donalds, R-Fla., and Jared Moskowitz, D-Fla., discuss why they're teaming up to make FEMA independent.

House Republicans and Democrats sharply scrutinized the federal response to the Texas flooding disaster that killed at least ...

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 ...

FEMA's acting director, David Richardson, testified before the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee on Wednesday ...

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.

Sen. Peter Welch introduced legislation Thursday to reform federal disaster management with an eye toward more local control. The Vermont Democrat expressed support for the Federal Emergency ...

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

FEMA Administrator Brock Long, left, joins Regional Administrator Bob Fenton, center, and Mark Ghilarducci of Cal OES for tours of neighborhoods burned in October 2017 California wildfires. (Chanda ...