A Failure of Initiative: Final Report of the Select Bipartisan Committee to Investigate the Preparation for and Response to Hurricane Katrina (Report 109-377) by U.S. House of Representatives


A Failure of Initiative: Final Report of the Select Bipartisan Committee to Investigate the Preparation for and Response to Hurricane Katrina (Report 109-377)
Title : A Failure of Initiative: Final Report of the Select Bipartisan Committee to Investigate the Preparation for and Response to Hurricane Katrina (Report 109-377)
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ISBN : 0160754259
ISBN-10 : 9780160754258
Language : English
Format Type : Paperback
Number of Pages : 584
Publication : First published April 5, 2006

The Select Committee identifies failures at all levels of government that significantly undermined and detracted from the heroic efforts of first responders, private individuals and organizations, faith-based groups, and others.

House Report 109-377. Union Calendar No. 205. Tom Davis, Chairman of the Select Bipartisan Committee. Tells the story of inadequate preparation and response in evacuations, medical care, communications, and contracting. Concludes that the government's best efforts, at all levels of government, were not good enough. The writers hope that their findings will prompt the changes needed to make all levels of government better prepared and better able to respond the next time.


A Failure of Initiative: Final Report of the Select Bipartisan Committee to Investigate the Preparation for and Response to Hurricane Katrina (Report 109-377) Reviews


  • Alan

    Read for work and fully concur. There is a pervasive atmosphere in America that someone else is going to save us. Consequently, from citizen to President, we all have the opinion that someone will bail us out.

    Extracts from this report formed the policy foundation of the USCG Mobile Command & Control Working Group to improve what we already do so very well.