Federal Emergency Management Agency

...the music, the fishing. The resilience shown by thousands of residents after Katrina is inspiring; my best friend endured three years in a FEMA trailer while rebuilding, by hand, his hurricane-devastated house, just across Lake Pontchartrain...

In this article: Andrew Cuomo, New York, David Paterson, Eliot Spitzer, California, Revenue, Louisiana, and New York

...Graham and Jim DeMint. Their intervention might have made the difference, Dill said, though no one knew. Chief Russell Ledford said FEMA had initially provided the money, then demanded repayment because of an unintentional paperwork error...

In this article: Bob Inglis, Lindsey Graham, and Jim DeMint

...rule that prevents states from using grant money to repair and maintain disaster preparedness equipment. E-mail bulletins from the Federal Emergency Management Agency were sent out Friday, said Lacey Callahan, a spokeswoman for the Oklahoma...

In this article: Fiscal year, E-mail, Oklahoma Office of Homeland Security, and Oklahoma City

...with the Bay St. Louis-Waveland School District will be in Washington on Jan. 5 for an arbitration hearing into their dispute with FEMA over $7 million in damage from Hurricane Katrina. The school district has asked for $7.27 million...

In this article: Hurricane Katrina, Washington, and Associated Press

...officials got e-mails stating the rule had been rescinded and that grant money could be used for maintenance and repair, but FEMA officials did not return calls confirming this. Since 2003, the state has received about $171 million in...

In this article: Oklahoma, Waste, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Office of Homeland Security, and Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation

...equipment with federal money - which still would have been allowed - instead of repairing existing equipment with their own money. "FEMA made what I believe is the fiscally prudent decision," said U.S. Rep. Steve Driehaus, D-West Price...

In this article: Steve Driehaus, Cincinnati, and Hamilton County

More than a half-million dollars of taxpayer stimulus money will fund new FEMA mobile homes and storm shelters for poor Kiowa tribal members. 35 FEMA trailers make it to Miami Wednesday. By Gary Crow A court ruling blaming the Army Corps...

In this article: Hurricane Katrina, Sierra Club, Complaints, Army Corps of Engineers, and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Latest Political & State Legislature News, Blogs and Articles ADVERTISEMENT New Orleans schools might get FEMA money soon FEMA administrator Craig Fugate said Wednesday that his agency is getting close to an agreement with state...

In this article: FEMA, Department of Homeland Security, Louisiana, Katrina, New Orleans, and Steve Scalise

The trailers were used as temporary housing in the aftermath of Katrina, which roared through South Mississippi in August 2005. Federal Emergency Management Agency officials had estimated that heading into the fall, about 30,000...

In this article: GSA, Hurricane Katrina, and Associated Press

...to help readers get a feel for this new office, the proposal suggests that, "Conceptually, it could be thought of as an international FEMA" and that it would be "roughly analogous to an international FEMA." Ah, yes, and that worked out quite...

In this article: Stuart W. Bowen, FEMA, John Limbert, Barack Obama, Afghanistan, Peace Corps, and Iran