The problem is the agency we are appropriating money to has demonstrated with great clarity that it is spectacularly dysfunctional.

The problem is the agency we are appropriating money to has demonstrated with great clarity that it is spectacularly dysfunctional,

The problem is the agency we are appropriating money to
has demonstrated with great clarity that it is spectacularly
dysfunctional,

every day that we delay professionalizing FEMA and depoliticizing it is another day that taxpayers' money is being spent by an agency which has been demonstrated under these circumstances to be incompetent.

There's consensus. There's clarity. There's cash. There is much better coordination. We should be able to deal with the bird flu epidemic much quicker and ... if the pandemic comes, it will be smaller as a result of what's gone on at this meeting.

There is a difference between transparency and clarity. You can put everything out there and have a full airing of different opinions. But sometimes there is too much emphasis on the Fed's deliberations rather than its conclusions and that confuses things.