You have people that are in severe need and they need it very quickly, but at the same time you want to make sure there ...
I think it is critical that FEMA maintain and expand their fraud awareness programs.
I think it probably was the case there when James Lee Witt was there, and then it went through kind of a period in the w...
So I am not trying to justify for Hurricane Katrina, but it was almost like the mind set may have been that if you get 1...
I think it is a combination that initially people were trying to get a lot of aid out to the survivors.
Is that a fair characterization?
My goal is to review the organization and leadership of FEMA components, their emphasis on front-end accountability proc...
FEMA has wrongly paid out money to some people that have suffered damages and floods, hurricanes, tornadoes, et cetera.
How much training is involved there? When we talk about fraud awareness training, what are we talking about?
I want to make sure that FEMA has in the agency a culture of accountability.
This is not going to be limited just to Arkansas. This is going to happen throughout the country.
I am wondering if the way this got started in Arkansas was that FEMA was not talking to each other within itself.
I think it is an idea that we ought to talk about and think about and see if it is feasible and see if it would help.
FEMA actually has now turned this over to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) for collection.
And I think that is the great thing about having this hearing is to try and get that information out and really discuss ...
I think equipment is going to improve this issue, but it is not going to solve this issue.
You have to change the attitudes of the players and the parents about reporting those symptoms.
No, I think that is excellent. And I do think that those are the little things that really are going to make a differenc...
