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Elaine Kamarck

Elaine C. Kamarck

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Elaine C. Kamarck was a GOVERNING contributor. She is a lecturer in public policy at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at the Harvard Kennedy School.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency should never have been folded into the Department of Homeland Security.
If we don't heed the lessons of history we may find that what little remains of the federal budget will be eaten up by a new entitlement program -- emergency management and response.
Civil servants feel that their advice is not heeded, while politicians feel that the permanent government undermines them with poor performance. They are all right and they are all wrong.