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Brock Long to be Confirmed FEMA Administrator on Monday, June 19th

The new FEMA administrator gets a vote in the Senate on Monday.

Here are a few details on the confirmation of Brock Long for FEMA administrator. See 5 Reasons Why Congress Should Immediately Greenlight the Nation’s Natural Disaster Responder-in-Chief.

I noted that Brock responded positively about the need for an emphasis on mitigation as the most important function we can perform as emergency managers. Even the title of the linked article above got it wrong. He needs to the Mitigator in Chief in our nation.

Claire Rubin shared the link above.

Eric Holdeman is a contributing writer for Emergency Management magazine and is the former director of the King County, Wash., Office of Emergency Management.