Word: fema
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...might think that after Michael Brown's FEMA fiasco, the White House would try to avoid any appearance of cronyism in job appointments requiring technical expertise. You might think that after the Plan B contraceptive flap and safety problems with drugs like Vioxx, it would seek to avoid controversy while picking someone to run the embattled Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Think again...
...parish that spends an estimated $3 million to $4 million a year on levee maintenance alone, it may be time to ask some difficult questions. Some suggest that the parish could tap into a FEMA grant program to buy out the most flood-prone properties on the condition that they never be developed again. Others say it is foolish to maintain a continuous 100-mile levee, that the parish should be converted into a string of islands of development with marshland between them. Ultimately, it may be up to individual landowners to decide if they want to roll the dice...
...FEMA be fixed? Administration officials tell TIME they plan to rework the agency's makeup and responsibilities--and perhaps even change its name to shed the stigma following the Hurricane Katrina fiasco. As Michael Brown, the former chief of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, emphasized during his occasionally churlish testimony on Capitol Hill last week, "FEMA does not own fire trucks, ambulances, search-and-rescue equipment." Says James Jay Carafano, an authority on homeland security at the conservative Heritage Foundation: "It's the National Disaster Coordinating Agency. You could probably come up with a sexier name, but that's what...
...According to Administration officials, the White House plans to use the investigation to win support for changes in government architecture that might otherwise be resisted by Congress or federal employees unions. "We view this as an opportunity to make real improvements," says a senior Administration official. A huge target: FEMA's parent, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). President Bush created the department in a hurry and under duress after the attacks on the Pentagon and World Trade Center, and officials say they hope to have a DHS 2.0 running well before he leaves office. --By Mike Allen
...guess you want me to be the superhero that is going to step in there and suddenly take everybody out of New Orleans." MICHAEL BROWN, former director of FEMA, during a heated exchange with a congressional panel investigating what went wrong in the federal response to Hurricane Katrina...