we cannot ever get answers
It takes a while for it to get all the way down.
Sitting and thinking about our hearing today, the one word I had not heard, which should have been in everybody's testimony, is 'risk-based....
I think the important point Dr. O'Toole made is we will work with you if you buy in.
The country needs this laboratory to protect its agriculture industry.
you need a backbone, the person that is running the agency, and take the heat, but do what is right for the country.
We have got to figure out a way to have a better assessment.
I want to pin you down. Is this per capita damage indicator a good measure to determine State and local capacity to handle disasters?
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.