WASHINGTON - SmarterSafer.org will host a conference call at 11 a.m. on Thursday, January 31 to introduce its new Disaster Assistance Framework and discuss how Congress can pursue a holistic approach to improve federal disaster response.
The federal government continues to address natural disasters after they occur in an ad-hoc, one-off, inadequately coordinated way. The result is that disaster-funding decisions are made with insufficient time and political will to weigh concerns about long-term safety, mitigation and resiliency. Disaster preparedness and assistance should not be political. Federal resources should be used to reduce risk to Americans in high-risk areas, avoid harming natural buffers to storms, and protect taxpayers from wasteful and inefficient spending.
Who:
- Steve Ellis, Vice President of Taxpayers for Common Sense
- Matt Gannon, Assistant Vice President of the National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies
- R.J. Lehmann, R Street Institute Senior Fellow and Public Affairs Director
- Joshua Saks, Legislative Director at the National Wildlife Federation
- John Seebach, Senior Director of Federal River Management at American Rivers
When: 11 a.m. EST; Thursday, January 31
Dial in: (800) 977-8002; Direct Dial (404) 920-6550; Code: 4634362#
Contact: Matt Englehart at (202) 415-5313
/PRNewswire-USNewswire -- Jan. 30, 2013/
Original Publication URL: http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/01/30/smartersaferorg-call-idUSnPnDC51363+160+PRN20130130
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