mr. decker. remember, administrator fugate testified that he told the administrator recently while he was on the ground and fema stop sending stuff we don't need. >> yes, sir. , yes, sir. yet a backbone to stand up and say don't do that, you're being wasteful. but we saw fema just poor eyes under -- poor eyes on the second hurricane down there. for fighting the last war with too much ice. so assume that we are not trying to do anything at the expense of local and national government, and still regard the role of fema as supplemental, even in a catastrophic disaster, etc., you, you got to tell me what, would you or any of you believe that clarification of statutory authority is necessary, or given the broad language of the statute, should fema just hunker down and do it the statute says and let all take care of itself? understand that you have on the line, on the ground experience of which to draw from now. >> madam chair me, i'll take a stab at that one. i think what our members were trying to st