Peter DeFazio actually said...

"As I reminded your predecessor, Administrator Gaynor, our committee has jurisdiction over all of FEMA's Stafford Act responsibilities, which obviously are vast and of extraordinary importance and grow..."

"We will look for any way we can to provide additional funding for these cost-effective investments so we can achieve our shared goal of building a more disaster-resilient Nation."

"What I didn't realize then was how much time we were all going to spend working on FEMA issues over the past year."

"But the concern is, like when the FAA starts talking about Boeing as a customer, and we find undue influence over the inspectors."