The Stafford Act is insufficient.
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Edwards critiques the limitations of the Stafford Act for disaster assistance.
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Either pain on shore with everything that was advertised. The surge, the rain, the wind, all of our levee systems, particularly our federal levee systems and hurricane risk reduction systems performed magnificently. Having said that, the damage is still catastrophic.
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