I tell my staff I love charts, because when you put them out in the right way, it is so clear and you just can't fudge it.

Because I most certainly can understand keeping Social Security numbers, banking information private, but information about names, number of children in the household, previous employment, if the father was a welder, that might be helpful…

Well, I just urge you all to stay focused on finding the right solution to this issue so that we are treating people as quickly as we can, helping them with dignity.

We will ask the Administration to send people to Kobe, Japan, which will be hosting an international conference.

I have got to, unfortunately, end, but I am going to give each of you 30 seconds.

Thank you, Ms. Brown. We really appreciate the report that you all have done.

And I just think that would be a smart approach, to survey what exists in the 50 States now and in the counties, measuring that against the counties, or parishes in our case, most at risk.

And I understand this was a competitive bid. Can you talk about the other organizations that competed?

I am not sure how effective that next response will be.

Twenty-six-million dollars toward this effort.

And then under--because I remember when this was done under the extraordinary work of Governor Blanco in the face of having nothing offered in this particular area--the Louisiana Family Recovery Corps, which was stood up primarily with…

I believe that out of that, we will certainly see a recommendation to the President that, in fact, there needs to be better coordination across the Federal Government in a way that we provide services for recovery and relief to families…

Does anybody else want to comment on that?

Thank you very much, particularly for those succinct and, I think, very excellent recommendations for improvement.

I think it is important that--and maybe most important--a single lead Federal agency with experience and expertise in complex case management should be designated to coordinate and direct implementation of all Disaster Case Management…

I, for one, would urge you to work as quickly as you can to reach out to HUD.

You weren't looking for the content for the services provided, or the quality of the services provided?

One case manager per family.

If they walked in and said, we need a refrigerator, you got them one, that was success?

The instinct to create further levels of bureaucracy is rarely appropriate given the power of voluntary agencies.

We need one case manager per family.

When you are managing cases for families... they needed housing, I think it was the number one on the chart, and then furniture, health and well-being, utilities, and food.

we want to recognize by this time line the fact that actually before Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, there was virtually no case management provision in the Federal law for dealing with a disaster, as if it was not an essential component of…

So let us talk about the privacy issue.

I'm proud to have asked for it. I'm proud to have fought for it. And I will continue to.