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Lieberman, Collins Say Support Growing For Keeping FEMA In DHS

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Wednesday, February 18th, 2009

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Senators Joseph Lieberman (I/D-Conn.) and Susan Collins (R-Maine) yesterday said that the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) should remain within the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and that eight organizations representing 1.7 million first responders have also recently endorsed that position. Lieberman, who chairs the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, said reforms made in the past three years are contributing to FEMA's success and that removing it from DHS, as some are suggesting, "would weaken FEMA, since the agency…

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