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    Partisan Battle Over Effectiveness Of FEMA Rages On

    Partisan Battle Over Effectiveness Of FEMA Rages On

    September 2, 2011
    by Personal Liberty News Desk



    Several influential members of both parties have defended or attacked the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) as Washington debated the necessity of the organization.

    House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) has voiced his distaste for the Federal agency and has said that the money that is used by FEMA could be offset by cuts from another area of government, according to The Hill.

    “We are just going to have to make sure there are savings elsewhere to continue to do so,â€
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    Paul, Sanders on FEMA: Anti-Federalist vs. Federalist, or a Battle Over Bloat?

    by Jarrett Stepman
    08/31/2011
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    In the wake of Hurricane Irene battering the East Coast, two senators of dramatically different ideologies, Rep. Ron Paul, a libertarian Republican from Texas, and Sen. Bernie Sanders, a far-left Socialist from Vermont, made bold statements regarding the effectiveness and existence of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).

    Before Irene even hit, Paul was airing his frustration with FEMA, which is a federal bureaucracy created to respond to national disasters. http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/08 ... -disaster/

    Paul called the agency “a system of bureaucratic central economic planning, which is a policy that is deeply flawed.â€
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    Cantor in tricky spot on disaster aid

    By Mike Lillis - 08/31/11 06:50 AM ET
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    House Majority Leader Eric Cantor’s (R-Va.) insistence that federal disaster aid be offset elsewhere in the budget runs directly counter to his position in the past when the money went to help his district.

    In the summer of 2004, after Tropical Storm Gaston slammed into Richmond, Cantor was on the front lines of efforts to secure millions of dollars in federal assistance to clean the wreckage and repair damaged infrastructure. Although the funding was not offset, Cantor cheered its arrival.

    “The magnitude of the damage suffered by the Richmond area is beyond what the Commonwealth can handle,â€
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    FEMA head Craig Fugate brushes off Eric Cantor


    'Americans have always come to the aid of other Americans in a crisis,' Fugate said. | AP Photos

    By REID J. EPSTEIN
    8/31/11 7:36 AM EDT
    Updated: 8/31/11 10:10 PM EDT

    The coordinator of the federal response to Hurricane Irene said Wednesday that his agency has enough money to aid flood victims and he brushed off House Majority Leader Eric Cantor’s suggestion that congressional Republicans may seek corresponding budget cuts before approving storm funding.

    Federal Emergency Management Agency Director Craig Fugate took to the network morning shows to tout the government’s response to Irene and post-storm flooding, which has incapacitated parts of Vermont, upstate New York and New Jersey and left hundreds of thousands of people without power on the East Coast.

    He downplayed suggestions from Cantor that Congress won’t appropriate emergency response funding without corresponding budget cuts.

    “We don’t know what’s coming down the line, but what I do know is we have funds to continue response, rescue operations and immediate needs and that’s been our focus,â€
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