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Bill Delahunt: “The GAO auditor, Gregory Kurz, told senators during a hearing that the amount of waste and abuse and fraud could be…”

On the recordFebruary 14, 2006
The GAO auditor, Gregory Kurz, told senators during a hearing that the amount of waste and abuse and fraud could be hundreds of millions of dollars. They just do not know yet. {time} 2245 As he indicated, FEMA may also have brought too many temporary homes, including 11,000 units that currently sit empty in sinking mud in Hope, Arkansas, while they are needed in Louisiana and Mississippi. It is the incompetence of the planning process that was nonexistent. Today, the Secretary of Homeland Security announces, I am going to address that, I am going to hire 1,500 disaster specialists. Good job, Mike, heck of a job.
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Bill Delahunt
Massachusetts
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