By all measures, Hurricane Katrina was the largest natural disaster that FEMA has ever been called upon to support, ... Although FEMA pre-positioned significant numbers of personnel, assets and resources before the hurricane made landfall, we now know its capabilities were simply overwhelmed by the magnitude of this storm. |
By the end of this year our department anticipates issuing a new inexpensive secure travel card for land border crossings. |
Chief Paulison has over 30 years of experience in emergency management, working his way up the ranks from firefighter to chief of the Miami-Dade County fire and rescue department, |
Completing the Border Infrastructure System will strengthen our efforts to reduce illegal entry to the United States. Congress provided us the authority to ensure this project is completed, and I intend to use it, |
deeply and personally engaged in the process from before the hurricane. |
Don has the leadership, ideas and optimism that the residents of the Gulf Coast Region deserve, |
Employers and workers alike should be on notice that the status quo has changed ... these enforcement actions demonstrate that this department has no patience for employers who tolerate or perpetuate a shadow economy. |
everybody sensed the urgency. |
everybody's patience has been taxed. |
extremely pleased with the response that every element of the federal government, all of our federal partners, have made to this terrible tragedy. |
Federal, state and local resources have been fully mobilized, |
FEMA has better resources and ... it brings more to the table now than it did in the previous five, six, seven years. |
FEMA is moving supplies and equipment into the hardest hit areas as quickly as possible, |
For those who wonder why it is difficult to get these supply and medical teams into place, the answer is, they are battling an ongoing dynamic problem with the water, |
From my own experience, I don't endorse those views, |