What do we tell those people? Is the Stafford Act sufficient to respond to this disaster?

We got together and rescued our own people. We did it.

We've got to work to get it right.

If you can save money--if you can save money, provide a more stable, preferable environment for the law enforcement community, why would you not do that?

It is absolutely unacceptable to think that we're going to find a way to charity ourselves out of this thing.

And, most essentially, we need that $2 billion Community Development Block Grant program so that we can try to go in and convince these people that the right thing to do is to stay in their communities.

But then we've got to make sure that our response from Washington is targeted on responding to this storm in the most effective way, learning from other mistakes.

What we're saying is we want to mitigate in a very smart way, which is, if we do our Comite project and other things, we will manage the water that we receive so that even a thousand-year storm we can survive.

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