Topic - Federal Emergency Management Agency

• Last FEMA trailer leaves 6 years after Katrina

  The last of the once-ubiquitous FEMA trailers has been removed from New Orleans more than six years after flood walls and levees broke during Hurricane Katrina and caused the city to fill with floodwaters.

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  Border protection gets largest chunk of $59B budget request

  The Department of Homeland Security's total budget request for fiscal 2013 is just over $59 billion, a little less than the current year but almost $5 billion more than the 2011 level.

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  FEMA has plan to waive debts of disaster victims

  The Federal Emergency Management Agency announced Wednesday that it is rolling out a plan to waive debts for many victims of Hurricane Katrina and other disasters who may have mistakenly received millions of dollars in aid.

• American Scene

  A central Missouri teenager who confessed to strangling, cutting and stabbing a 9-year-old girl because she wanted to know how it felt to kill someone was sentenced Wednesday to life in prison with the possibility of parole.

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  FEMA asks Katrina victims for money it wrongly sent out

  FEMA is seeking to recover more than $385 million it says was improperly paid to victims of hurricanes Katrina, Rita and Wilma.

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  Northeast flood victims short on holiday cheer

  In a normal year, Della and Biondo Antonello would have decked their once-immaculate home with strings of festive Christmas lights and trimmed their tree with ornaments collected from around the globe.

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  D.C. seeks disaster declaration for August earthquake

  D.C. Mayor Vincent C. Gray formally requested help from the Obama administration to pay for $6.8 million in damage from the 5.8-magnitude earthquake that stunned the region on Aug. 23.

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  Obama declines McDonnell's invitation to tour quake-damaged area

  President Obama has declined Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell's request to stop in Louisa, the site of a 5.8-magnitude earthquake, when he swings through the state next week in an effort to boost support for his jobs package.

• Obama rejects McDonnell's invite to tour quake town

  President Obama has turned down Gov. Bob McDonnell's request to visit the small town at the epicenter of August's earthquake while he's in Virginia pushing his jobs plan.

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  MILLER: Hey, big spender

  At the stroke of midnight Friday, the fiscal year ends. When the final numbers are in, the government will have grown larger. Despite politicians spouting off about tough cuts, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) reported federal outlays have gone up by $118 billion through August. America is barreling over the cliff into bankruptcy, but Washington isn't willing to stop the train.

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  Senate OKs stopgap bill to prevent shutdown

  The Senate passed a stopgap spending bill Monday night to avert a potential government shutdown after the Obama administration discovered it had enough money in its disaster accounts to last through the end of this month, leaving lawmakers with "nothing to fight about."

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  Cost offsets that Bunning once pitched catch on

  Jim Bunning may be out of the Senate, but the fire he lit still smolders.

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  Senate blocks emergency disaster money

  Harry Reid set up a Monday vote on replenishing the almost-empty federal disaster relief accounts.

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  Flooding, quake damage in Virginia to exceed $100M

  An earthquake, a hurricane, storms and flooding have caused more than $100 million in damage to Virginia state and local facilities in the past month, with some damages in Northern Virginia still to be calculated.

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  Ex-FEMA chief decries 'porous' Mexican border

  Joe M. Allbaugh, the outspoken former director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), says the U.S. government needs to do a better job of securing the U.S.-Mexico border against illegal immigration and to step up its efforts to control what's being shipped daily into the United States.

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