{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.paul.senate.gov/news-sen-rand-paul-holds-hearing-fema-examine-waste-and-identify-solutions/", "Sen. Rand Paul Holds Hearing on FEMA to Examine Waste and Identify Solutions", "2016-04-12", "2016", "2016-04", "Republican", "Senate", "KY", "Rand Paul", "P000603", "www.paul.senate.gov", "paul", "https://www.paul.senate.gov/news/", "scraper", "WASHINGTON, D.C. \u2013 Today, U.S. Senator Rand Paul (R-KY), Chairman of the Subcommittee on Federal Spending Oversight and Emergency Management for the Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee (HSGAC) held a hearing entitled, \u201cFEMA: Assessing Progress, Performance, and Preparedness.\u201d Senators Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), Ranking Member of the subcommittee, and Heidi Heitkamp (D-ND) also participated in the hearing.\n\nDuring the oversight hearing, Sen. Paul assessed the effectiveness of the Federal Emergency Management Agency\u2019s (FEMA) preparedness grants programs, and highlighted examples of wasteful spending by grant recipients. Sen. Paul also sought additional details on FEMA\u2019s lack of progress in implementing recommendations from the Government Accountability Office and the Department of Homeland Security\u2019s Office of Inspector General.\n\nWitnesses testifying in the hearing included: Timothy W. Manning, Deputy Administrator for Protection and National Preparedness for the Federal Emergency Management Agency and U.S. Department of Homeland Security; John Roth, Inspector General for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security; Christopher Currie, Director of Emergency Management, National Preparedness, and Critical Infrastructure Protection for the Homeland Security and Justice Team and U.S. Government Accountability Office; and John Drake, Deputy Administrator and Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration for the U.S. Department of Transportation\n\nThe video of Sen. Paul\u2019s opening remarks at the committee hearing can be found below.\n\nCLICK HERE TO WATCH SEN. PAUL\u2019S OPENING REMARKS AT THE COMMITTEE HEARING ?\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-08T20:49:20Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://www.paul.senate.gov/news-sen-rand-paul-holds-hearing-fema-examine-waste-and-identify-solutions/"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.8868789300322533, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}