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A map of the vote by province in 1984 shows the scale of the Progressive Conservatives' landslide victory. In a Canadian federal election, a landslide victory occurs when a political party gains a significant majority of the House of Commons of Canada. Landslide victories may also occur during provincial elections, and territorial elections in ...
The 1988 Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act provides the legal authority for most FEMA programs and federal disaster response and is the legal mechanism through which ...
Federal disaster relief and recovery was brought under the umbrella of the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), in 1973 by Presidential Reorganization Plan No. 2 of 1973, [11] and the Federal Disaster Assistance Administration was created as an organizational unit within the department. This agency would oversee disasters until ...
The Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act (Stafford Act) [1] is a 1988 United States federal law designed to bring an orderly and systematic means of federal natural disaster assistance for state and local governments in carrying out their responsibilities to aid citizens. Congress's intention was to encourage states ...
Sen. Thom Tillis has led a bipartisan group of senators in calling for Congress to pass a disaster funding package to assist victims of Hurricanes Helene and Milton, as the SBA disaster loan fund ...
The letter is the latest sign of frustration among federal officials, elected leaders and some members of the public about what is turning into a troubling trend of misinformation spreading online ...
The Federal Emergency Management Agency was heavily criticized in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, primarily for its slow response and inability to coordinate its efforts with other federal agencies relief organizations. Chicago Mayor Richard Daley (D) said of the slow federal response, "I was shocked. We are ready to provide considerably ...
Mr. Biden has issued emergency declarations for Alabama, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia, all of which free up federal resources that will go toward ...