You got a lot of state emergency management directors that would be excited about how they can make their money go further if you would return them back to what was the conditions prior to 1979 before Jimmy Carter created our current FEMA and put it under federal control. And so if we can allow the states, allow the federal governments. I talked to the Homeland Security chairman today on the big things, the Helene, the Katrina block grant, some of these others and give states autonomy under state regulatory burdens. (48:01–48:05)
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