Famous Last Words

State and local governments are looking to us for leadership. They are looking to FEMA to tell them where are the holes in response plans? Where are the holes in our mutual aid agreements? What incentives can you provide us to fill those holes?

-- Mike Brown during his 42-minute-long confirmation hearing in 2002 with the Committee on Governmental Affairs chaired by Connecticut Senator Joe Lieberman.

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