April 28, 2006

Senate Panel Recommends Abolishing FEMA after Katrina disaster

April 28, 2006/ Tron Nick

A US Senate panel conducting an investigation into the federal response to Hurricane Katrina concluded that the Federal Emergency Management Agency [official website] should be abolished and replaced with a new federal agency [recommendations, PDF] with more authority over emergency preparedness. The bipartisan panel recommended 86 changes, including the creation of the National Preparedness and Response Authority, which would be part of the Department of Homeland Security, but with increased congressional oversight over funding and staffing. Some members of the Department of Homeland Security and former FEMA chief Michael Brown , forced to step down over his handling of Katrina, were critical of the suggested change as merely bureaucratic reshuffling. [MORE]

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