Senator Susan Collins (R-ME) asks former Director of Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Michael Brown, about the communication problems between local and federal officials in the wake of Hurricane Katrina during a hearing before the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.

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Brown says that the newly created Department of Homeland Security is more interested in terrorism issues than in natural disasters, while FEMA is charged with cleaning up a disaster regardless of the cause. Brown states that natural disaster relief is left in the background. (1:25)

 
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February 10, 2006
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