http://bit.ly/pX14gk Within Politics with Bill Schneider - Guests: Congressmen Ron Type (D-WI) & Joe Crowley (D-NY) 12.15.10

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Congressman Ron Sort (D-WI) and Congressman Joseph Crowley (D-NY) joined Third Way Distinguished Senior Fellow Invoice Schneider for his December 2010 Inside of Politics press breakfast to talk about their response to tax/stimulus deal and the policy potential customers for 201. C-SPAN filmed this event - verify their video archive for on-line video clip of the breakfast http://bit.ly/Dor9J
Homeland Safety Secretary Janet Napolitano praised New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg Tuesday for the city’s successful reaction to hurricane Irene.Washington
Homeland Safety Secretary Janet Napolitano mentioned Tuesday that individuals who criticize preparations for hurricane Irene for staying excessive are engaging in “what I like to contact the blinding clarity of hindsight.”
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At a Keep track of-hosted breakfast for reporters Tuesday, Secretary Napolitano was asked about grumbling about storm preparations in New York City wherever Mayor Michael Bloomberg ordered the metropolis subway method shut down and low-lying areas evacuated. In the finish, the metropolis was spared from huge scale flooding as a end result of the storm.
“I believe New York Town did a wonderful task – producing those evacuation selections, clearing the roads for responders, getting really careful and knowledgeable about what variety of time it requires to safely evacuate, say a nursing home ... I would grade New York Town very highly on this storm," Napolitano said.

Mayor Bloomberg was quoted by The Wall Street Journal as declaring on Sunday, "We created exactly the correct call” relating to the unprecedented evacuation of a lot more than 350,000 people.
Napolitano arrived to the breakfast dressed in a blue Federal Emergency Administration Company (FEMA) shirt and was headed afterwards in the day to examine storm injury in North Carolina and Virginia. FEMA is 1 of the 22 separate agencies that ended up folded into the Homeland Security Department in 2003 as a reaction to the attacks of September eleven, 2001.
The nation’s successful reaction to hurricane Irene was because of in portion to the sources DHS has place in place since 9/11, Napolitano explained. The reaction “reflected a lot of teaching, preparation, exercises, gear, provisions, all of which by the way arrived in part out of 9/eleven and the creation of the division and via the department the ability to get resources out to the regional level,” she said.
Several regions of the east coast are nevertheless dealing with the right after outcomes of the storm with flooding being documented in Vermont and New York. Widespread electrical power outages ongoing with much more than two.5 million folks from North Carolina to
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