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JIMMY KIMMEL "A Senate panel has recommended getting rid of FEMA. Boy, when FEMA gets wind of this in six weeks or so, they're really going to be upset." JAY LENO...
...Trouble is, a lot of those votes are not in the city. Evacuees live in 44 states now. The NAACP and other groups filed a lawsuit to delay the election, establish polling centers out of state and force FEMA to turn over the addresses of evacuees to the campaigns. They lost. The state of Louisiana agreed to set up 10 polling places outside of New Orleans but in-state, near the borders of neighboring states. Community groups like ACORN, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, which help low- and moderate-income families, have organized buses leaving Monday from...
...useless the day after the quake; and cause about $70 billion in damages. "My previous director used to say he would immediately file two forms in the event of a major earthquake," says Kurt Pickering, spokesman with the Tennessee Emergency Management Agency. "The first would be the request to FEMA for a disaster declaration, the second his retirement papers...
...Katrina, says former deputy security of homeland security James Loy, was that it forced officials in other hurricane-prone places to re-examine their emergency plans. "There are many other places in the nation that are now much better prepared," Loy says. Last month, Loy and former FEMA director James Lee Witt founded Protecting America, a coalition of emergency officials, first responders and insurers. The coalition suggested that Gulf officials learn from Florida's example when rebuilding their hurricane response capability. It is one of only five states that reports feeling confident in its evacuation plan, and Loy and Witt...
...called the White House and said you guys ought to be in a rage to change it. And the country doesn't see that [dissatisfaction with the government's own performance]. The country is not seeing the lessons of FEMA failing in New Orleans. They are not seeing the lessons of the bureaucracies failing in Baghdad. The President says the right things, for example, about health information technology. You say, okay, you've been saying this for three years: what's happened? And it's pitiful...