We had to pass a post-Katrina act; we even had to pass a bill that never got through the Senate.
We could not even get the prior administration to acknowledge the structural problem.
We are frustrated with the Agency not seeing the structural defeat.
What is your objection to having all parties agree upon a procedure... considering that you are keeping $3 billion from ...
Let me indicate that the Appropriations Committee supports our view, it would support it many times over now, that we do...
There is no way to argue that we can ease up on Louisiana and Mississippi a little bit; because we have been at this for...
It is unconscionable.
Half a billion is on appeal, at least $3 billion is in dispute, and the notion that we would even discuss with FEMA thin...
With a new administration, I think it is a fair to ask, are you, Mr. Fugate, in light of the broad bipartisan criticisms...
you don't want Congress twice revisiting. Then you get us really mad, and you lose authority
A huge problem.
these duplicative functions were cited as a primary cause of the failed response of Hurricane Katrina.
Report is one thing, permission is another. If we get into permission matters, the supersized disaster we are talking ab...
I can tell you this much, we are going to build a Department of Homeland Security over in Ward 8. It is going to be a LE...
We need to get all of that extra help that you gave to Louisiana and Mississippi, and they will do it.
What did we learn from Hurricane Katrina, as well as from other disasters in the United States and around the world?
We cannot sit by and really hope that outsized disasters such as Hurricane Katrina and 9/11 will never occur again.
This is a structural problem. Your mandate is to keep Louisiana, to keep Mississippi, from getting too much money.
