Warren Rudman
Warren Rudman
Warren Bruce Rudmanwas an American attorney and Republican politician who served as United States Senator from New Hampshire between 1980 and 1993. He was known as a moderate centrist, to such an extent that President Clinton approached him in 1994 about replacing departing Treasury Secretary Lloyd Bentsen in Clinton's cabinet, an offer that Rudman declined...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth18 May 1930
CountryUnited States of America
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The president's very right about one thing: When you have a disaster of that scale, whether it be natural or a terrorist attack, there's only one part of our entire government, state or local, that is equipped to handle it, and that's the U.S. military.
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If you have a major disaster involving hundreds of thousands, or in this case millions of people, whether it be a natural disaster or an act of terrorism, the first 72 hours are going to be totally chaotic no matter what you plan to do.
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Really, politics should stop at the door of that committee. I don't know whether Roberts is right or Rockefeller is right. But I do know that when you lose bipartisan oversight by that committee, you lose something very, very important.
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Washington, D.C., has a much greater risk than Manchester, N.H. They both need some level of funding, but they ought not to be done per capita. Congress is to blame for some of this.
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marks the first significant step forward in a campaign for president by John McCain.
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While we have put forth the best estimates so far on emergency responder needs, the nation must urgently develop a better framework and procedures to generate guidelines on national preparedness,
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The problem the administration has is that the predicates it laid down for the war have not played out. That could spell political trouble for the president, there's no question.
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If we have a disaster -- and we think it is quite probable in the next 20-25 years -- we're not prepared to deal with it,
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One of the things we stress is, you've got to get interoperability and communications, or else you're going to have disaster no matter what goes on.
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There is nothing new and alarming that we have come across.
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Both the Democratic and the Republican parties stand for equality of all people. We have no room in our party, it seems to me, for someone who writes the things that he's written in the last year.
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We are looking at all the accounting issues we have looked at all along, and at this point, we don't have any conclusions. We are still hoping to wrap up the investigation by the end of December, and if we don't make it we'll do it in January.
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There is a very low probability we will find anything new. We might find some additional definition to some of the issues we have already reported on.
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We're not talking about creating a new bureaucracy. We're talking about taking a number of bureaucracies and consolidating them into one streamlined organization.