Political Quotes

“just as Pennsylvania was emerging from a series of natural disasters that lasted over a period of 10 days, snow and then more snow and then rain, and then flood, the Governor of the Commonwealth, our former colleague, Tom Ridge, decried the slow response of FEMA, the Federal Emergency Management Agency. He did so because FEMA seemed to not be able to make the connection between flood and rain and snow and all the tragedies that occurred all at one time. Then, of course, the Governor received a nasty rebuttal from the White House, and nothing was then accomplished in trying to address the problems of the disaster. Since that time the Governor convened a meeting in Harrisburg of the FEMA officials, Secretary Pena and others. We were able to resolve the methodology by which the Federal Emergency Management Agency will respond in the future. In the meantime, I aim to bring to the committee process an examination of the FEMA procedures.”