I would like to ask Mr. Skinner, you know, first, I want to amen everything you said about letting the dust settle and roots grow into the ground with FEMA.
So you have a Federal Emergency Management Agency, but you don't really want to spend the money to make it what it needs...
I know that this is not always convenient, and you put a lot of time, energy into these opening statements and preparing...
It is also changing culture in the organization.
I strongly feel, while more work remains to be done, FEMA has made significant progress over the last 2 years.
I am very opposed to that. This has become a well-organized Department.
I still think it is too few. I think we should be over 20,000, but we hit that goal.
I have been an advocate for the center to try to package more of that training and take it out in increments.
Clearly, it would show that this is not the right place to place that money. They've wasted a lot of it already. And it'...
Oh, this was an oversight.
This is old in the 1950s war style 'Soprano' type politics, that, you know, you go along to get along and you don't talk...