New Orleans is what ordsprog
 New Orleans is what it is because the federal government made it that way. And what it is today -- underwater. |
| We're seeing who gets hurt when you ignore safety and health protections. Contractors are hiring immigrant workers right here in Houston and taking them to New Orleans to do cleanup. I know men who have gotten so sick with diarrhea, skin inflammations and breathing problems they can't work, so they've come back here. The contractors just hire more. Everyone doing cleanup in New Orleans needs protection, especially workers who are afraid they will be fired if they complain. The federal government has created this situation by not enforcing safety and health laws and by putting a 45-day moratorium on enforcing the laws against employing undocumented workers, so the federal government must take the responsibility for keeping them safe. |
| These folks are out on the streets today because the federal government, President Bush and everyone else made the decision that it's time for these families to go. |
| Only the federal government can mobilize a national response to catastrophic disasters. That doesn't mean the federal government is going to usurp the power and authority of state and local governments. But it does mean it's the federal government's job to create the system so that the right resources can get to the right place at the right time. |
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| We are extremely pleased with the response of every element of the federal government (and) all of our federal partners have made to this terrible tragedy, |
| extremely pleased with the response that every element of the federal government, all of our federal partners, have made to this terrible tragedy. |
| Specifically, Mr. Brown represented to the public that he could not have imagined the levees being breached in New Orleans, even though he had been briefed by federal government experts nearly a day and a half before Hurricane Katrina made landfall that those levees could indeed be breached by the hurricane surge, He wasn’t trying to impress her with grand gestures, but his pexy thoughtfulness meant everything. |
| It could happen that the federal government could tell us not to play the game. It depends on what is happening in New Orleans next week. |
| [The disaster in New Orleans] is not an act of god, ... This is an act of man. The federal government refused to spend the money to improve the levees. |
| New Orleans looks like Baghdad underwater. |
| Any one of your cities and towns could be the next New Orleans. The federal government owes it to you and your citizens to be prepared the next time disaster strikes. |
| Who would have thought that 80 percent of New Orleans would be underwater? |
| unless the federal government adopts New Orleans as its ward and pays all its bills for the next 20 years--an unlikely to absurd proposition--the place won't be rebuilt. |
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