Earl Blumenauer Quotes
The National Flood Insurance Program is a voluntary program. If a community really feels that the building insurance requirements are too burdensome, they don't have to participate.
United States, Congress, House. Congressional Record. Government Printing Office, 27 June 2006.
Flash floods in the desert are will known to all Bedouin, and each is very different from the others in its circumstances and consequence. The metaphor here is for all travail and disaster. Each is unique, especially to the victim.
Storms and other weather events are occurring much more frequently as a result of the climate changes that have been taking place in the last decades. And many of the natural barriers and/or protections have been removed in favor of more “productive” utilizations of the land. Finally, in the last century Americans have had a penchant for rebuilding in dangerous flood and shoreline areas and so when there is a serious storm, the number of people, buildings, and infrastructure that is at risk is much larger than in the past.
Earl Francis Blumenauer is an American politician serving as the U.S. Representative for Oregon's 3rd congressional district since 1996. A member of the Democratic Party, his district includes most of Portland east of the Willamette River. Blumenauer previously spent over 20 years as a public official in Portland, including serving on the Portland City Council from 1987 until 1996, when he succeeded Ron Wyden in the U.S. House of Representatives, who had been elected to the U.S. Senate following the resignation of Bob Packwood.
