Bill Delahunt: “If I can, just for a moment, just to digress, because we have been talking about Katrina and the fraud and the…”

“If I can, just for a moment, just to digress, because we have been talking about Katrina and the fraud and the mismanagement associated with the Katrina spending, I think it is important to remember, too, that about half of the 700 contracts that have already been issued were issued on a no-bid basis, and they were issued to corporations that have obvious political ties. But that is a subject for another night. But, again, it goes back to just incompetence and lack of planning.”