The Federal Emergency Management Agency’s acting leader has adamantly defended the federal government’s response to historic flooding in Texas earlier this month, saying lawmakers’ attacks on the agency’s actions were unwarranted.

U.S. House Democrats on Wednesday pressed David Richardson, acting head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, about his agency’s response to the devastating Hill Country flooding. U.S. Rep. Greg Stanton,

Nim Kidd, chief of the Texas Division of Emergency Management and representatives from the Upper Guadalupe River Authority are expected to testify.