Legislation already covered but abandoned (for now)

Initially, I covered legislation on approximately twenty-five topics. It eventually got to be too much. But I don't like deleting work done, so I'm leaving them here. Just not updating as more legislation is passed.

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FEMA, July 17, 2025 - August 22, 2025: No bill had 20+ cosponsors. Not even the July 23 bill to increase FEMA funding for Texas after the July 4 flooding. Democrats: Extreme Heat Emergency Act; Catastrophic property loss reinsurance program; TX Flood Emergency Act (Guadalupe flood); Mortgage relief for disaster survivors; Saving NOAA's workforce; Preventing heat-related illness and death. Republicans: Above-the-line tax deduction for flood insurance premiums. Bipartisan: Wildfire insurance; Improved retirement benefits for federal firefighters; Risk assessment for ability of federal gov't to absorb natural disasters; NOAA weather radio modernization; Marine aquaculture research; Cloud laboratory research program (AI-related).

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Photograph: New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Commander Mark Moran, of the NOAA Aviation Weather Center, and Lt. Phil Eastman and Lt. Dave Demers, of the NOAA Aircraft Operations Center, all commissioned officers of the NOAA Corps, flew more than 100 hours surveying Katrina’s devastation. Eastman piloted NOAA’s Bell 212 Twin Huey Helicopter from August 31 to September 19. All three men took dozens of aerial photos from an altitude of several feet to 500 feet. Photo credits: Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.