Michael Brown
Michael Brown
Former administrator of FEMA who resigned from his position after Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Many americans blamed him for the slow response to help those in New Orleans in the aftermath of the deadly hurricane.
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth8 November 1954
CityGuymon, OK
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They're not taking patients out of hospitals, taking prisoners out of prisons and they're leaving hotels open in downtown New Orleans. So I'm very concerned about that.
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At a news conference, Pelosi, D-Calif., said Bush's choice for head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency had 'absolutely no credentials.'
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As we entered this quarter, we expected desktop units to be relatively flat, with revenue down sequentially due to continued pricing pressures, ... However, pricing pressures have been more severe than expected, with the sequential rate of price decline roughly double that of the prior two quarters.
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They were aware of what was going on.
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The current structure of FEMA is not going to allow anyone to succeed. It just cannot be done.
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The current structure at FEMA is not going to allow him to succeed.
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The concept is to get them some cash on hand, which empowers them to make their own decisions about what do they need to have to repair their own lives.
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The concept is to get them some cash on hand which allows them, empowers them to make their own decisions about what do they need to have to repair their own lives,
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The concept is to get them some cash in hand which allows them, empowers them, to make their own decisions about what do they need to have to start rebuilding.
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This hurricane has caused devastation over a wide area.
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This is a community that's in dire need of jobs, which has a median income of less than $19,000 a year, ... If we don't use this power, cities will die.
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The flooding is just everywhere... New Orleans, all through Mississippi and Alabama,
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a great way to ... empower these hurricane survivors to really start rebuilding their lives.
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The construction of this sidewalk on a dead-end lane is a complete waste of taxpayers' money.