Why is the average coming out somewhere around $8,000?
Is there a prohibition that prevents money towards going to a permanent housing solution, not temporary, permanent?
the FEMA we had during Katrina and Rita was a FEMA that just didn't work.
I think it's important to hear from the mayors on the ground about the challenges.
I think the manufactured housing unit program has been too slow. It hasn't been responsive.
I will tell you it's the fastest it's ever been done, and by a long shot.
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...
Ultimately, our jobs ought to be finding out what the problems are and breaking through the red tape.
The Stafford Act is entirely insufficient to respond to this disaster.
We got together and rescued our own people. We did it.
What do we tell those people? Is the Stafford Act sufficient to respond to this disaster?
So homes will be not only--have they been not only underwater, now they're going to be underwater and people walking awa...
I did call Congressman Graves. We did get water.
If our first thought is always that America's citizens are looking for a way to beat the system, then we're never going ...
I just want us to be fair and try to work in a way to just get people what we can give them right now.
I don't think that can work that way.
We're going to donate in charity and volunteer our way out of the fourth most costly disaster in the United States--floo...
Our main objective is going to be making sure that the response that has to come from Washington... is something that we...
