Kucinich proposes an amendment to increase funding for FEMA, but all the Republicans save two
vote against it. The Democrats are, of course, almost all in agreement.
All climate scientists agree that global warming is a big problem. Hurricanes are getting worse, and Katrina showed that FEMA was not ready to deal with it. This money would go to a study to make sure that FEMA could be prepared for the next disaster(s). As Kucinich said:
At the moment, we can still choose which policy options we want to exercise. We can deal with the effects of climate change in one of two ways: we can acknowledge the extraordinary challenges before us and prepare for them, voluntarily and aggressively, but steadily, predictably, and controllably; or we can continue to create policies as if there is no problem and wait for the changes to control our pace of adaptation. The choice is ours.
Let FEMA prepare for the task ahead.
But the Republicans almost all vote against this measure. Meanwhile, the same House passed a xenophobic and high-cost
immigration bill.
The Republicans might say that they want to protect the homeland, but they sure have a funny way of showing it. Rather than spending money on an ineffective wall trying to keep foreigners out of the country, I would like to see that the next disaster came with a lower death toll and a faster response.
We need to vote these people out of office, and fast. Too bad we can't do it before hurricane season starts.
(Cross posted at Let Freedom Snore.)