Clinton: US needs better disaster prep - Yahoo! News

Clinton: US needs better disaster prep - Yahoo! News: " Clinton: US needs better disaster prep " By BRENDAN FARRINGTON, Associated Press Writer Mon May 21, 7:13 PM ET AVENTURA, Fla. - Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton' name=c1> SEARCHNews News Photos Images Web' name=c3> Hillary Rodham Clinton says the federal government needs to do more to prepare for disasters and favors the creation of a national insurance backup fund. Clinton said Monday that one of the Bush administration's greatest failings was dismantling how the Federal Emergency Management Agency' name=c1> SEARCHNews News Photos Images Web' name=c3> Federal Emergency Management Agency operated and putting it under the Homeland Security' name=c1> SEARCHNews News Photos Images Web' name=c3> Homeland Security Department. "We have to rebuild an effective, functioning, qualified emergency system. I think we've got to get it out of the Department of Homeland Security, where it's mired in a dysfunctional bureaucracy," Clinton said in an interview with The Associated Press.