So, Mr. President, we need FEMA. We can fix it, we can reform it. But I've talked to many of my colleagues on both sides of the aisle and they know that Most of our states, really all of our states, are simply not set up and equipped to deal with a catastrophic event. Oftentimes it's in the case of Vermont, once in 100 year storm that came two years in a row. But we don't have the infrastructure of an emergency response to deal with that. (04:50–04:59)
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Asserts that states lack the infrastructure to handle catastrophic events without federal assistance.
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