Kendrick Meek: “I feel very strongly also there is a lot of work to be done. What I am disturbed about, I was at the emergency operation…”

“I feel very strongly also there is a lot of work to be done. What I am disturbed about, I was at the emergency operation center last night in Miami-Dade County speaking with the county manager and several of the county commissioners. The mayor was on his way back from Homestead Air Force Base meeting with National Guard personnel and management, and the bottom line is that they did not get the supplies that they were supposed to get. The ice was not coming, Mr. Speaker. The water was not on the way, and it is not the Kendrick Meek report. It was on the Weather Channel. It was on CNN. It was on Fox. It was on MSNBC. It was on all the major news networks saying we are prepared because we are Floridians, and we are used to doing this. Well, I can tell the Members that we are never perfect. And I am holding up just one picture here, Mr. Speaker, from the New York Times of the Orange Bowl. Everyone knows about the Orange Bowl throughout the country, but it is not known for what it was known for, for a number of championship games, a number of professional football games. It is a place of chaos and a place of frustration right now. And I use the word ``chaos,'' and I do not use that loosely. I can tell the Members I happened to be with the National Guard yesterday. I wanted them to take me to all of these distribution centers by a Blackhawk, and we had an opportunity to see them.…”