I also want to continue rebuilding our communities better and stronger than ever from Harvey and Imelda
Continue rebuilding Southeast Texas communities after Harvey and Imelda so they are better and stronger than before.
Occurrences
Evidence
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Babin requested FY2027 funding for the Chambers County Regional Emergency Response and Interoperable Communications Project, including high-water rescue vehicles and other assets to support disaster response, flood response, and evacuation operations in Southeast Texas.
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Babin requested FY2027 funding for the Clear Creek Federal Flood Risk Management Project, saying it would reduce flood risk in Harris and Brazoria counties and 17 cities and citing the area's Hurricane Harvey flooding history.
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Babin’s FY2027 community project list includes a $13,000,000 request for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for the Clear Creek Federal Flood Risk Management Project, described as reducing flood risk in Harris and Brazoria counties and 17 Clear Creek watershed cities through channel conveyance improvements and stormwater detention basins, plus floodplain habitat restoration to enhance regional resilience. The same page lists a $1,972,000 Chambers County Sheriff's Office emergency-response communications request for Southeast Texas hurricane vulnerability.
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The House Appropriations report accompanying H.R. 9022 includes Corps of Engineers civil works funding and states that the Corps supports flood and coastal storm damage reduction and disaster preparedness and response. Its community-project table includes a Babin-requested Houston Ship Channel, TX, Corps operation and maintenance line with $30,850,000 above the budget request, but searches of the report text did not find Babin's requested Clear Creek flood-risk project listed by name.
Assessments
Babin has continued to pursue federal funding for Southeast Texas flood recovery and resilience after Harvey and Imelda, including FY2027 requests for Clear Creek flood-risk management and Chambers County emergency-response upgrades, plus a Corps-related community-project item that advanced in a House appropriations report. The available evidence shows advocacy and some committee-level advancement, but not that the core promised outcome, rebuilt communities that are stronger than before, has been completed or that the most directly relevant flood-risk projects were enacted and implemented. Because he remains in federal office and these are later-term continuation efforts, this merits partial credit with an effort badge rather than full delivery.
The evidence shows Babin continued to pursue federal flood-mitigation and disaster-response funding for Southeast Texas communities affected by Harvey-era flooding, including FY2027 requests for Clear Creek and Chambers County projects. That is candidate-attributable federal advocacy and supports partial credit for continuing the rebuilding effort, but the record provided does not show that the promised communities were actually rebuilt better and stronger, or that these FY2027 requests had passed and produced completed outcomes.