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Obama visits FEMA for storm briefing
President Obama visited the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) headquarters Saturday morning ahead of a day of campaigning for a briefing on recovery efforts after Hurricane Sandy.
Obama spent just more than an hour in the briefing and conference call that included several cabinet officials and Govs. Andrew Cuomo (D-N.Y.), Chris Christie (R-N.J.) and Daniel Malloy (D-Ct.).
Obama said afterward that his team was putting “120 percent” into making sure communities have the resources they need and that “there's nothing more important than us getting this right.”
“What I told the governors and the mayors is what I've been saying to my team since the start of this event, and that is we don't have any patience for bureaucracy, we don't have any patience for red tape, and we want to make sure that we are figuring out a way to get to yes, as opposed to no, when it comes to these problems,” Obama said.
Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donavan is touring public housing in the Rockaways and Breezy Point in New York, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius is visiting with hospital workers and residents in Manhattan and Brooklyn and Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano will go to both West Virginia and Long Island.
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