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"Many are concerned that federal disaster assistance may have evolved into both an oversized entitlement program and a disincentive to effective state and local risk management. Expectations of when the federal government should be involved and the degree of involvement may have ballooned beyond what is an appropriate level."

- Joseph Allbaugh, President Bush's first Director of FEMA (and current Halliburton lobbyist), testifying to the U.S. Senate on why the agency needed downsizing, 5/15/01