In a critique of the government’s response to Hurricane Katrina, a Senate panel on Thursday will urge that the heavily criticized Federal Emergency Management Agency be replaced with a new agency.
The government improperly sealed hundreds of previously public CIA, Pentagon and other records by reclassifying them as secret on questionable grounds, an internal review said Wednesday.
With hurricane season approaching, FEMA is destined to repeat million-dollar mistakes of disaster aid waste and fraud unless it can quickly establish controls for verifying names and addresses, congressional investigators say.
By AARON BLAKE
Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune
Karen Edmonson was a drug abuser by age 11, a high school dropout by 10th grade and a convicted drug dealer by 21. Even after a year in prison, she relapsed into drinking and cocaine and was weighing whether to start dealing again.
President Bush prides himself on being a “plain-spoken fella,” but a few straightforward words he uttered earlier this year still have a lot of people perplexed about his energy policy.
President Bush and lawmakers from both parties vied with one another Tuesday to demonstrate their concern over escalating gasoline prices in a barrage of speeches, news conferences and bill introductions.
Family members of those aboard United Flight 93 are lobbying Congress to persuade a Republican lawmaker to lift his hold on funding for a memorial where the plane crashed in Pennsylvania on Sept. 11, 2001.
President Bush is not on the ballot in November, but he might as well be. Republican losses could make an already difficult situation in Congress almost untenable for him.
A drunk: That’s the title George W. Bush deserves most. He is a drunk even if he doesn’t get blasted on booze. He’s drunk with power and that’s the most dangerous kind of drunk. When a drunk who gets high on power sits in the White House, the rest of us wake up with the hangover.
The so-called shakeup is cosmetic, a reshuffling of the same power players who have advised and served Bush’s agenda of false optimism, fake assessments and outright deceit since they took over the West Wing on January 21, 2001.