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Preparedness for and Response to Terrorist Attacks and Natural Disasters
The Department of Homeland Security, including the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), plays a key role in advocating for individuals and communities being prepared for a terrorist attack or natural disaster. It is vital that individuals and families have an emergency plan in place and an emergency kit ready to go. The DHS Ready Initiative provides valuable information on ways to prepare for a terrorist attack or natural disaster.
Since its inception, the Committee on Homeland Security has supported citizen and community preparedness and has worked to ensure that first responders have the resources they need in the event of a terrorist attack or natural disaster. The Committee continues to encourage collaboration at all levels of government through information sharing, planning, training, and exercising to ensure more effective and coordinated attack and disaster response.
Newsday: As LI outages persist, anxiety rises
Associated Press: Officials tour LI seaside village slammed by Sandy
Wall Street Journal: A Grim Fear Engulfs Areas Lacking Light
Lungren, Bilirakis Release Majority Staff Report Detailing Homeland Security-Hindering Regulations and Red Tape
Subcommittee Hearing: Resilient Communications: Current Challenges and Future Advancements
Subcommittee Hearing: The EMP Threat: Examining the Consequences
A Look Ahead: House Committee on Homeland Security
UPDATED -- A Look Ahead: House Committee on Homeland Security
A Look Ahead: House Committee on Homeland Security
Joint Homeland Security Subcommittee Hearing on R&D for First Responder Technologies
A Look Ahead: House Committee on Homeland Security
Homeland Security Emergency Preparedness, Response, and Communications Subcommittee to Hold Grants Hearing– TOMORROW
Subcommittee Hearing: Taking Measure of Countermeasures (Part 3): Protecting the Protectors
A Look Ahead: House Committee on Homeland Security
Homeland Security Committee Passes Legislation on Public Alerts and Warnings, Intelligence Sharing, TSA
Markup: H.R. 3563, H.R. 2764, H.R. 3140, H.R. 2179
Homeland Security Committee to Consider Four Homeland Security Bills -- TOMORROW
A Look Ahead: House Committee on Homeland Security
Emergency Preparedness, Response, and Communications Subcommittee to Hold FEMA Budget Hearing – TOMORROW
A Look Ahead: House Committee on Homeland Security
A Look Ahead: House Committee on Homeland Security
Homeland Security Subcommittee Passes Emergency Preparedness, Response, and Communications Legislation
H.R. 3563, Integrated Public Alert Warning System Modernization Act of 2011
Updated -- A Look Ahead: House Committee on Homeland Security
A Look Ahead: House Committee on Homeland Security
A Look Ahead: House Committee on Homeland Security
A Look Ahead: House Committee on Homeland Security
A Look Ahead: House Committee on Homeland Security Committee (***updated with witness names, additional hearing)
A Look Ahead: House Committee on Homeland Security
Newsday: Quake awakens memories of 9/11 for some
A Look Ahead: House Committee on Homeland Security
Subcommittee Field Hearing: “Weathering the Storm: A State and Local Perspective on Emergency Management”
Clearwater City Hall
A Look Ahead: House Committee on Homeland Security
UPDATED -- The Week Ahead: House Committee on Homeland Security
UPDATED -- The Week Ahead: House Committee on Homeland Security
The Week Ahead: House Committee on Homeland Security
Subcommittee Hearing: Taking Measure of Countermeasures (Part 1)
The Week Ahead: House Committee on Homeland Security
The Week Ahead: House Committee on Homeland Security
The Week Ahead: House Committee on Homeland Security
Issues
- Domestic Radicalization / Radicalization Hearings
- 9/11 Trials/Guantanamo Detainees
- Border Security
- Chemical Facility Security
- Counterterrorism
- Cybersecurity
- First Responder Communications
- Information Sharing and State and Local Fusion Centers
- Killing of Osama bin Laden
- Maritime Security
- Oversight of DHS Management
- Passenger and Cargo Aviation Security
- Preparedness for and Response to Terrorist Attacks and Natural Disasters
- Risk-Based Grant Funding
- Surface Transportation Security
- Weapons of Mass Destruction
- Wikileaks