[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 151 (2005), Part 15]
[House]
[Pages 19738-19739]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                           HURRICANE KATRINA

  (Mr. INSLEE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. INSLEE. Mr. Speaker, last weekend I went to the floor of the 
Astrodome to work with some of the evacuees. I have never been so 
inspired by people of courage and grace and great dignity.
  On the way home on the flight from Houston to DC, there were 10 
evacuees headed for Florida. In the middle of the flight, a young man 
took out a razor blade and slashed his wrists in a suicide attempt.
  The pilot made the appropriate judgment. There were two MTs on board. 
They saved his life. Actually, it probably was not life threatening. We 
diverted to Nashville. We made a flight change in response to a 
problem.

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  Now this administration has to make a change in the flight plan about 
who and how FEMA is being run. It is a disaster in itself. We need a 
flight change, and this is not a matter of accountability. There are 
more hurricanes on the way.
  FEMA's job in this disaster is not done. We do not have confidence in 
the people and the organization in the FEMA cockpit. It could crash 
again. This President needs to change FEMA, and we should be doing it 
in this debate today.

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