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FEMA showdown
April 13, 2006 |
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With six weeks left until hurricane season, controversy is raging in Congress about the fate of the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Should FEMA become an independent agency with a cabinet-level position, like it was under Clinton, or should the agency remain under the control of the Department of Homeland Security?
FEMA needs a cabinet-level appointee. Bush blundered when he enmeshed FEMA in the gigantic Homeland Security bureaucracy in the first place.
Lindsay Beyerstein a New York writer blogging at Majikthise.
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