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- Homeland Security preps for presidential transition
- OAKLAND -- From a 12th-floor desk at the regional Federal Emergency Management Agency office in downtown Oakland, Nancy Ward can survey a swath of her FEMA territory where millions of people, from downtown Oakland to San Francisco and beyond, live and work atop earthquake faults. Soon, Ward's...
- Research articles 2008-04-21
- Federal agencies planning for White House handoff
- OAKLAND -- From a 12th-floor desk at the regional Federal Emergency Management Agency office in downtown Oakland, Nancy Ward can survey a swath of her FEMA territory where millions of people, from downtown Oakland to San Francisco and beyond, live and work atop earthquake faults. Soon Ward's...
- Research articles 2008-04-18
- Oakland-based FEMA official gets interm position
- OAKLAND -- From a 12th-floor desk at the regional Federal Emergency Management Agency office in downtown Oakland, Nancy Ward can survey a swath of her FEMA territory where millions of people, from downtown Oakland to San Francisco and beyond, live and work atop earthquake faults. Soon, Ward's...
- Research articles 2008-04-18
- Federal disaster chief promises aggressive federal response to
- WASHINGTON -- The Bush administration's disaster assistance chief promised no repeat of the Hurricane Katrina experience Wednesday, saying "this is a new FEMA" as Washington weighed options to help California wildfire victims. "We're going to make sure this operation runs as smoothly as possible given the size of...
- Research articles 2007-10-24
- Bush orders federal aid to battle California wildfires
- WASHINGTON AFP — US President George W. Bush declared an emergency in southern California due to out-of-control wildfires and ordered federal aid to be directed to the area, the White House announced Tuesday. Bush's action authorizes the Federal Emergency Management Agency FEMA "to coordinate all disaster relief efforts which...
- Research articles 2007-10-23
- Tilting at windmills
- How to clear your inbox The Small Business Administration canceled 8,000 loans to hurricane victims without notice to the borrowers. When the borrowers sought an explanation, they were told, according to Ron Nixon of the New York Times, "that they had voluntarily given up their loans," which was not...
- Research articles 2007-09-01
- White House defends Katrina recovery contracts
- WASHINGTON -- The Bush administration on Thursday defended its efforts to award lucrative government contracts to small, Gulf Coast businesses for Hurricane Katrina recovery work, and pledged improvement in the coming months. In a sometimes testy congressional hearing, officials from five government agencies said they were proud...
- Research articles 2007-08-03
- Ex-EPA Administrator Grilled Over Her Role in 9/11 Illnesses
- WASHINGTON, DC ENS — --> When the hijacked planes hit New York's World Trade Center towers on September 11, 2001, Christine Todd Whitman was serving as administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Monday, she was examined by a Congressional panel about whether the actions of her agency...
- Research articles 2007-06-26
- Statement by the Press Secretary
- To: NATIONAL EDITORSContact: White House Press Office, +1-202-456-2580 WASHINGTON, May 22 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Following is a statement from White House Press Secretary Dana Perino: The president today declared a major disaster exists in the State of South Dakota and ordered federal aid to supplement State and local recovery efforts...
- Research articles 2007-05-22
- Catastrophe Management
- There’s a lot of talk in Washington, some by people who admire you personally, that DHS—the Department of Homeland Security—is an organizational disaster, and that no one alive could make it successful. How would you respond? I think you probably could have said those things about the Department of Defense...
- Research articles 2006-09-01
- Katrina dealt a blow to Bush, and that's bad news for GOP
- David Letterman told a joke the other night about incompetent politicians: "More Americans can name the Three Stooges than the three branches of government... because the Three Stooges are more likely to get something done." The audience roared, and no wonder: The conventional wisdom these days is that the incumbents...
- Research articles 2006-08-27
- St. Bernard man to take his FEMA trailer, message to the White House
- Like thousands of other people, Rockey Vaccarella lives outside of his gutted home in a FEMA trailer. He is rebuilding his St. Bernard Parish home, but he's about to take a short vacation to Washington, D.C. On Aug. 18, he's taking his trailer with him. Vaccarella, 40,...
- Research articles 2006-08-09
- Senate Defies Bush, Approves $109 Billion in War Spending, Hurricane Relief
- MEMPHIS, Tennessee ENS — --> The U.S. Senate has approved a $109 billion emergency spending bill to pay for the war in Iraq and for reconstruction of the hurricane-battered Gulf Coast, but the future of the legislation is very much up in the air. The measure is $14 billion...
- Research articles 2006-05-04
- Reports can't stop storm seasonKatrina inquiries tell what went
- By Lara Jakes Jordan THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON - Most of the changes in natural disaster preparedness proposed by the White House and Congress since Hurricane Katrina are years away at best, leaving the Gulf Coast and other areas vulnerable to new devastation. Only...
- Research articles 2006-04-30
- Senate report on Katrina blasts the White House anew
- WASHINGTON -- A Senate inquiry into the government's Hurricane Katrina failures ripped the Bush administration anew Thursday and urged the scrapping of the nation's disaster response agency. But with a new hurricane season just weeks away, senators conceded that few if any of their proposals could become reality in time....
- Research articles 2006-04-28
- A wide new swath of Katrina blame
- In a scorching account of government failure, a Senate committee yesterday blamed a failure of leadership stretching from the White House to the mayor's office in New Orleans for the botched response to Hurricane Katrina. Although the report's call for disbanding the Federal Emergency Management Agency has garnered the...
- Research articles 2006-04-28
- Washington: The Next Storms
- The president's aides thought they had a lock on the headlines. George W. Bush had just embarked on his Asian tour with a surprise visit to Kabul. Within hours he would announce a breakthrough nuclear deal with India. But as they watched reporters scurrying around their New Delhi hotel last...
- Research articles 2006-03-13
- Former FEMA director Michael Brown, now leveling accusations of inattention and incompetence at the White House, is earning praise from the president's harshest critics
- * Former FEMA director Michael Brown, now leveling accusations of inattention and incompetence at the White House, is earning praise from the president's harshest critics. Pretty soon they'll be saying that Brownie is doing a heck of a job.
- Research articles 2006-03-13
- White House fights back on Katrina tape
- The White House said Thursday it was "setting the record straight." Congressional Democrats called for an investigation. The former head of FEMA demanded an apology. It was the second day of political wrangling between the White House and its critics after the Associated Press released a tape it obtained...
- Research articles 2006-03-03
- Video: Bush got Katrina warning
- President Bush was warned about Hurricane Katrina's potentially devastating impact on New Orleans' levees the day before the storm hit, according to transcripts of emergency briefings that Bush received. The transcripts, first obtained by the Associated Press and then by the Inquirer Washington Bureau, show that Bush was told...
- Research articles 2006-03-02
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