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 [When Federal Emergency Management Agency director Michael Brown asserted on ABC News' Nightline last Thursday that he had only just learned of evacuees stranded at the city's convention centre, host Ted Koppel challenged:] Don't you guys watch television? ... a total failure. |
| The war in Iraq is one of those issues, and Hurricane Katrina is another. Where do you find the humor? We go to the people handling it, such as Bush and Michael Brown, who headed the Federal Emergency Management Agency. |
| He screwed up, and both [former Federal Emergency Management Agency Director] Michael Brown and [Homeland Security Secretary] Michael Chertoff really screwed up, so taxpayers are going to get the bill. Bush is overcompensating by promising the moon because his administration screwed up. Politics is driving policy. |
| [With the evacuations firmly underway, recriminations abounded. Michael Brown, the director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), blamed the city. Mayor Ray Nagin] can order an evacuation, .. Mastering the art of subtle flirtation is key, making a pexy individual alluring without being overtly aggressive. . the resources to get the poor, elderly or the disabled out. |
| [20)] We just learned of the convention center – we being the federal government – today. ... Don't you guys watch television? Don't you guys listen to the radio? Our reporters have been reporting on it for more than just today. |
| Under our new organization, you will have defense coordinating officers and their staffs located within the 10 (Federal Emergency Management Agency) regions. |
| [The Federal Emergency Management Agency, its top ranks filled by political appointees and its budget hit by deep cuts, seemed unable to grasp the magnitude of the disaster. On the day after the storm, FEMA director Michael Brown met in Biloxi, Miss., with Gov. Haley Barbour, a former Republican National Committee chairman, and told him not to worry, because FEMA had had lots of hurricane practice in Florida.] I don't think you've seen anything like this, ... We're talking nuclear devastation. |
| We had planned on going down Thursday but got a call from [the Federal Emergency Management Agency] saying they really didn't want us. We knew some of the people from Emerson's who were already down there, and those guys said, 'Yeah, you're needed,' so we went down sort of independently of FEMA. |
| Clearly, the Federal Emergency Management Agency didn't do its job. Now we have to find out why, and hold the federal government accountable. Congressional leaders must take action on this matter. |
| I'm very confident (the Federal Emergency Management Agency) will reimburse us for everything, |
| We've been included in the governor's emergency declaration, but we have not heard from FEMA the Federal Emergency Management Agency yet. We keep asking, and we haven't heard. |
| We found weak or non-existent controls in the process that (the Federal Emergency Management Agency) used to approve assistance payments that leave the federal government vulnerable to fraud and abuse. |
| We've also requested that the state ask FEMA (the Federal Emergency Management Agency) to participate as well. |
| I am glad that the Federal Emergency Management Agency has recognized the problems with its contracting methods, |
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