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Roger Wicker: “This does not make FEMA do it. It gives FEMA the ability to engage whomever they choose to do it.”

On the recordJune 8, 2011
This does not make FEMA do it. It gives FEMA the ability to engage whomever they choose to do it.
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Roger Wicker
Republican · Mississippi

Editor's note · Context

Wicker clarifies that FEMA can choose how to implement the proposal.

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