Push for independence: With another hyperactive hurricane season set to begin in just over six weeks, Congress members are gearing up for a fight over whether the Federal Emergency Management Agency should remain under the control of the Department of Homeland Security or become a stand-alone agency answerable only to the president.
According to a report in Congress Daily:
— House Homeland Security Committee
House Government Reform Chairman Tom Davis, R-Va., said Wednesday he wanted FEMA removed from Homeland Security and under the president’s direct control. “The response [to a disaster] has to be able to bring all the assets of the federal government together quickly,” Davis told reporters at the 2006 Homeland and Global Security Summit in Washington, organized by Equity International. (Davis headed a special House panel that investigated the government’s response to Hurricane Katrina.)
But leaders of the House Homeland Security Committee say such a move would cripple the agency and the government’s ability to respond to disasters.
“Removing FEMA from DHS would only exacerbate the agency’s problems,” committee Republicans and Democrats said Wednesday in a joint statement, which aides said was not prepared as a response to Davis. “It would reduce FEMA’s access to the vast resources available within the department, create duplicative response efforts for natural and manmade disasters and significantly delay our ability to prepare for future emergencies. It is imperative that we strengthen FEMA while keeping it within DHS.”
A turf war is shaping up with members of both parties coming down on both sides of the issue.
House Transportation and Infrastructure Economic Development Subcommittee Chairman Bill Shuster, R-Pa., whose panel oversees emergency management issues, has drafted legislation that would remove FEMA from Homeland Security. Sen. Trent Lott, R-Miss., has introduced a bill that would make FEMA an independent agency. Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Chairwoman Susan Collins, R-Maine, says the agency should stay within DHS.
Well, when you don’t have any effective plans to execute, can’t get anyone but a crony to lead it, and don’t give a shit about the country and how many of its citizens die – does it really matter whether FEMA stays in DHS or not? Or has sufficient funding or not?
Bush is a “war-time president” and war is all he cares about, which will, fortunately, be his undoing.
Bushco and the Republican Guard are providing textbook examples of how NOT to try and govern a country. This, hopefully will exterminate the idea that the Republican Guard even knows how to govern, proves that “trickle-down economics” is a fraud, and will hopefully inflict so much damage to the Gang Of Perverts (GOP) that they will be recognized for the failed political party they are thanks to Bushco.
Wasn’t the Department of Homeland Security put in existence to be the one-stop shop for disasters? Wasn’t it supposed to streamline everything so there would be a faster response time? Do we even need it, if it’s not there to do Federal Emergency Management?
MY QUESTION IS THIS! WHY PUT SOMETHING IN A MANS HANDS THAT DOES NOT GIVE A SHIT FOR ANY ONE BUT THE DAM RICH AND HIS POCKET? THE SON OF A BITCH WILL ONLY TRY TO GET RID OF IT TOO! HE DOES NOT NEED TO BE IN TOTAL CONTROL OF THAT AND HE DAM SHORE DOES NOT NEED TO BE COMMANDER IN CHIEF AND THE ONLY REASON HE IS IS THAT ! HE STOLE IT! HE IS THE LYINGEST, CROOKEDIST, PIECE OF SHIT IN THE WORLD—-I SAY ! IMPEACH HIS ASS AND THROW HIM AND CHENY IN THE SLAMMER WITH ALL THE OTHER WRONG DOERS! DO NOT LET HIM BE PARDONED FOR THAT SETS HIM FREE OF ALL THE SHIT HE HAS CAUSED TO US ALL!