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To: sandintoes who wrote (107146)	9/27/2005 12:51:49 PM
From: PatiBob	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 225578

Finally, Brown is able to tell the world what some already knew and what a lot of democrates won't admit. click2houston.com "I very strongly personally regret that I was unable to persuade Gov. Blanco and Mayor Nagin to sit down, get over their differences, and work together. I just couldn't pull that off," Brown said. Brown testified on Capitol Hill Tuesday before a House panel investigating the federal government's response to Katrina. He claimed the Federal Emergency Management Agency "pushed forward with everything it had" to deal with the disaster, but that state and local officials were "reticent" about ordering mandatory evacuations ahead of Katrina. aolsvc.news.aol.com "My biggest mistake was not recognizing by Saturday that Louisiana was dysfunctional," two days before the storm hit, Brown told a special congressional panel set up by House Republican leaders to investigate the catastrophe. Committee Chairman Tom Davis, R-Va., cautioned against too narrowly assigning blame. "At the end of the day, I suspect that we'll find that government at all levels failed the people of Louisiana and Mississippi and Alabama and the Gulf Coast," said Davis. Davis pushed Brown on what he and the agency he led should have done to evacuate New Orleans, restore order in the city and improve communication among law enforcement agencies. Brown said: "Those are not FEMA roles. FEMA doesn't evacuate communities. FEMA does not do law enforcement. FEMA does not do communications." In part of his testimony, Brown pumped his hand up and down for emphasis. Brown said the lack of a mandatory evacuation of New Orleans before the storm was "the tipping point for all the other things that went wrong." Brown said he had personally pushed Louisiana Gov. Blanco to order such an evacuation. He did not have the authority to order the city evacuated on his own, Brown said. When asked by Rep. Harold Rogers, R-Ky, whether the lack of an ordered evacuation was "the proximate cause of most people's misery," Brown said, "Yes."