Let me indicate that the Appropriations Committee supports our view, it would support it many times over now, that we don't have money to spend on another top layer beside the top layer that is already there.

you don't want Congress twice revisiting. Then you get us really mad, and you lose authority

This is a structural problem. Your mandate is to keep Louisiana, to keep Mississippi, from getting too much money.

the armed forces of the United States constitutionally is under the Commander in Chief, and that constitutional barrier is of some interest to us.

We had to pass a post-Katrina act; we even had to pass a bill that never got through the Senate.

Half a billion is on appeal, at least $3 billion is in dispute, and the notion that we would even discuss with FEMA things like ALJs...

With a new administration, I think it is a fair to ask, are you, Mr. Fugate, in light of the broad bipartisan criticisms of FEMA since Hurricane Katrina...would not a wholesale overhaul of the Agency be in order at this time to ensure that…

What is a catastrophic disaster? Note that word: 'catastrophic disaster.' Think of it as a new invention.

What did we learn from Hurricane Katrina, as well as from other disasters in the United States and around the world?

And that appears to be satisfactory to those concerned?

What is the status of those talks?

Now, you are bearing in mind VRE and MARC wanting to expand rather substantially?