mr. fugate talked of him coming of the son or, yeah, ohio. it's ohio like louisiana. they don't have the oil in ohio. somebody's got to make the call. and so my answer is, if somebody's got to make the call, does the statute have to say who should make the call? or is there playing in the statute of all you need is some backbone? what you're guaranteed to have, who should make the call. we got to make a judgment one way or the other. >> 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 of. in the agency, and if it's going to stay in dhs, within dhs. i think we are naÏve to think that if we have a major catastrophe, dhs and secretary that polydor is not going to want to play a major role in that disaster i think we're just being naÏve if we don't look at it that way. therefore, the statute may be -- the stafford act has to be maybe made stronger to clearly say that the fema administrator is in charge and maybe it's pfo. the other thing, just to go back to the recovery

mr. fugate about the need to plan with -- for the entire community as it is.n up to their needs. for that reason now my office has now more than 30 regional emergency cord naders who are actually on the grounds in communities, sort of the eyes and ears to know how to plant -- emergency coordinator is for adulate on the ground in the communities, sort of the eyes and ears to know how to plan. ççt(xdby way of example, one e important programs that we have got under way in the past couple ofvç [eim are partnerships to really look across the population spectrum and to integrate really at the front and all of the groups that might be considered in the of vulnerable category because we add them up there is an awful lot of the population that is vulnerable, a pediatric populations often rise to the top of the list. other kinds of programs we developed in response to this include training curriculum for school crisis teams, disaster communication messaging, and a lot of work to develop programs in emotional first aid to early on address those emotional and mental

mr. fugate, to his credit, the first meeting we had, what do you mean?rattled off a couple of the recommendations we put here, and he and the secretary are aggressively working on that. he sets up every 30 days to gauge progress or lack thereof. if you on this subcommittee to look at and have another hearing and hold our feet to the fire in the executive branch's feet to the fire, that would make the next 5.5 to six months successful as well. >> thank you very much, and we will do so. doctor, you said that the case management -- i think you would say, you would hardly call it case management. we are not really managing much of anything, it is so fragmented and unable to deliver in a timely and appropriate way. what we think about creating a new kind of system, i have read in some of your testimony and other recommendations that part of the delivery system might be done through schools as they start up in terms of school- based counseling services. do you want to comment about the preference for that, or should there be opportune the community why? what i