WASHINGTON, Jan. 6 -- Sen. Maria Cantwell issued the following press release:
Last night the U.S. Senate passed legislation reauthorizing the National Landslide Preparedness Act. U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell (D-WA), ranking member of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation and senior member of the Finance Committee, and Representative Suzan DelBene (D, WA-01) first introduced (https://www.cantwell.senate.gov/news/press-releases/congress-passes-cantwell-delbene-landslide-preparedness-bill) the bill that established these programs in November 2020, and it was signed into law (https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/8810) in January 2021. After last night's Senate passage of the reauthorization, the legisl...