Federal Emergency Management Agency
United States disaster response agency
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| August 2024 | EMI was officially organized under the newly established National Disaster and Emergency Management University (NDEMU), consisting of three specialized schools. |
| April 24 2024 | Donald Payne Jr. concludes his membership on the House Homeland Security Subcommittee on Emergency Management and Technology in the 118th Congress. |
| 2023 | Subcommittee reverted to its original name: Homeland Security Subcommittee on Emergency Management and Technology. |
| September 30 2021 | A bipartisan bill, H.R. 5410 or The National Security Reforms and Accountability Act (NSRAA), was introduced to Congress by James P. McGovern (D-MA) and Peter Meijer (R-MI). The bill borrowed language from the REIGN Act regarding PEADs and aimed to provide clarification and limitations on national security powers. |
| 2020 | Harper's magazine published an article discussing controversies surrounding Presidential Emergency Action Documents, including former Senator Gary Hart's efforts to obtain information about these secretive plans. |
| July 22 2020 | Senator Edward J. Markey (D-MA) introduced Senate bill S.4279, known as The REIGN Act of 2020, which was the first legislation to directly acknowledge Presidential Emergency Action Documents (PEADs). The bill proposed forcing the President to submit PEADs to congressional scrutiny within 30 days, mandating declassification of active PEADs within 180 days, but ultimately died in committee. |
| March 2020 | President Donald Trump's White House press briefing statement about having 'the right to do a lot of things that people don't even know about' led to public discussion and media coverage of Presidential Emergency Action Documents. |
| 2019 | Subcommittee was renamed to the Homeland Security Subcommittee on Emergency Preparedness, Response and Recovery. |
| 2011 | NDEMU celebrated its 60th anniversary of Emergency Management Training and Education for the United States. |
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