Senators Joe Lieberman of Connecticut and Susan Collins of Maine are leading this charge. They are recommending, and it is just a recommendation, a new agency reporting to the Department of Homeland Security, but that will also have a direct line to the president during an emergency.
Lieberman discusses a recommendation to abolish FEMA and create a new agency for disaster management.
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It is self-evidently unacceptable in America to condition the enjoyment of constitutional rights on political party membership.
No right is more precious in a free country than that of having a voice in the election of those who make the laws under which we must live.
I appreciate the leadership that the Committee is showing, because this really is a threat to our country.
I think this is a unique moment in history, where the American people are so fed up with the two parties and the two logical probable candidates that they're going to welcome a bipartisan unity third choice on the ballot.
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