Tom Coburn actually said...

"The reason I am so interested in this is I saw the wasted money in Hurricane Katrina on debris cleanup, and it was atrocious."

"This is the way to do oversight."

"We need to figure out together, how we do this more effectively to really help States when they are overwhelmed."

"The Stafford Act says that the Federal Government should get involved in disasters when State and local capacity is overwhelmed."