Garret Graves actually said...

"But let's be clear. I don't want you to pull the Governor and his staff into this thing. This is not their decision. This decision is FEMA's decision."

"We need to do the Comite River diversion program. We need to erase the backlog of $724 million in emergency dollars through the Department of Transportation."

"We have to get a supplemental done. Without a supplemental, the government will never have the ability to set up a program to match the unmet need that people are going to have."

"I think it will. I think it needs to until we get a better handle of exactly what the threat is."