mr. huang administrator fugate and so we can deal more offensively and more officially with these issueswhen they arrive in a catastrophic disaster is. and perhaps i think maybe we should be and with a simple assumption, that we are going to be faced with catastrophes in the future. of we have to simply accept that fact. i know that in the past we said that we knew that but i think all of us who have been through these catastrophes or other it in france we really believe there are going to happen again because we need to be better prepared and said thank you very much for allowing me to testify and i appreciate this opportunity and will turn it over to the experts and i'm looking for to hearing what they have to say reading their testimony. no continuing to work with our relevance administrators at the federal levels of thank you reminds her that opportunity to testify today. >> thank you, you have introduce a new element, one that i am not sure is a unit is really very much worth looking at, the costs of of events versus one budget although that is the annual budget of the state so that

mr. fugate talked about has been coming out of the sun or, yeah.[inaudible] >> you know, somebody got to make a call. and so the answer is that if somebody has got to make the call, does the statute have to say who has to make the call or is there plenty in the statute and all you need is some backbone, which you're guaranteed to have. on who should make the call. we got to make a judgment one way or the other. >> well, i would argue that the statute has provided the authority but i think madam chair you're exactly right. it all comes down to leadership at the top in the agency within it. it's going to stay in dhs within dhs. i think we're naive. [inaudible] >> i think we're just being naive if we don't look at it that way. therefore, the stafford statute maybe has to be made stronger to clearly say that the fema administrators are in charge. the other thing when we're -- just to go back to the recovery issue, if congress doesn't put somebody in charge of recovery, it's never going to be organized because the agencies during the 1990s we used -- br

mr. huang administrator fugate and so we can deal more offensively and more officially with these issues when they arrive in a catastrophic disaster is. and perhaps i think maybe we should be and with a simple assumption, that we are going to be faced with catastrophes in the future. of we have to simply accept that fact. i know that in the past we said that we knew that but i think all of us who have been through these catastrophes or other it in france we really believe there are going to happen again because we need to be better prepared and said thank you very much for allowing me to testify and i appreciate this opportunity and will turn it over to the experts and i'm looking for to hearing what they have to say reading their testimony. no continuing to work with our relevance administrators at the federal levels of thank you reminds her that opportunity to testify today. >> thank you, you have introduce a new element, one that i am not sure is a unit is really very much worth looking at, the costs of of events versus one budget although that is the annual budget of the state so tha