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On the recordOctober 16, 2011
When he's State-trained, I think that's--again, nothing against Washington bureaucrats, but when you get somebody from the State who has been involved, like you, Mr. Kidd, at the State level and you put him in charge of FEMA, he has brought in new ideas and I think has broken this bureaucracy.
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Henry Cuellar
Democratic · Texas

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Cuellar praises FEMA leadership for bringing state-level experience and new ideas to the agency.

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