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FEMA |
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The Federal Emergency Management
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agency of the United States
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Department of Homeland
Security (DHS). |
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FEMA's purpose is to coordinate the
response to a disaster |
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within The USA. A state of
emergency must be declared |
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by the states' governor |
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In 1979 President Jimmy Carter signed Executive Order |
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12148 which put a new agency, FEMA, in charge of
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all disaster relief |
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From that point on FEMA took over: |
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Federal Preparedness Agency of
the General Services Administration |
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National Fire Prevention and Control Administration |
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Federal Insurance Administration |
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National Weather Service Community Preparedness Program |
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Federal
Disaster Assistance Administration activities from HUD |
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FEMA was also given the responsibility for overseeing the
nation's Civil |
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Defense, a function which had previously been performed |
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by the Department of Defense’s Defense Civil Preparedness
Agency. |
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Following the September 11, 2001 attacks, President Bush |
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created the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) |
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FEMA and DHS have been under intense citicism due to their
handling |
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of the Hurricane Katrina disaster in 2005 |
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Since Hurricane Katrina, critics have called for FEMA to be |
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removed from the Department of Homeland Security. |
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The federal government wasted
literally billions of dollars responding |
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to the disaster, dollars that
did little to help Katrina victims at all. |
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$2,000 debit cards
were issued to nonexistent people? |
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Emergency relief
checks were issued to nearly one million bogus applicants? |
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A Senate
panel has also come to the conclusion that it would be
better to abolish FEMA |
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Sen. Joe Lieberman called
for Congress to dissolve FEMA |
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Sen. Susan Collins,
R-Maine, said FEMA was in "shambles and beyond repair" |
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Republican member of Congress Ron Paul |
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The panel called for a new agency which will be called |
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the National Preparedness and Response Authority |
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Many people of Dumas have also criticized FEMA, |
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especially victims of the tornadoes. |
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Many also believe that FEMA has many hidden agendas: |
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see
video on YouTube |
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see
video on Google |
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Today FEMA exists as a major agency of the Department of
Homeland Security |
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H5N1 |
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Influenzavirus A |
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Biology and disease |
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