I would like to find the transcript for the Senate's confirmation of Michael Brown as Under Secretary of Homeland Security for Emergency Preparedness and Response (aka head of FEMA). His FEMA bio says he was nominated in January 2003.
http://www.fema.gov/about/bios/brown.shtm.
Articles from the Washington Post relating to his confirmation would also be very helpful.
According to today's Los Angeles Times [9/12/05], he was confirmed as a Deputy Director in 2002, and did not need to go through reconfirmation when he was promoted.
The 2002 hearing is at
http://purl.access.gpo.gov/GPO/LPS23569
Author United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Governmental Affairs. Title Nomination of Michael D. Brown : hearing before the Committee on Governmental Affairs, United States Senate, One Hundred Seventh Congress, second session on the nomination of Michael D. Brown to be Deputy Director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, June 19, 2002. Publisher Washington : U.S. G.P.O. : For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. G.P.O., [Congressional Sales Office], 2002.
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The LA Times article:
"Appointments That Disappoint" by Juliette Kayyem
September 12, 2005 Monday
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Also you could look at the weekly "Compilation of Presidential Documents: Main Page" at http://www.gpoaccess.gov/wcomp/index.html
In the second section that says "1993 (Volume 29) through 2005 (Volume 41) Compilations", click on "Search (1993 forward)".
A search for "Michael D . Brown", 2003, will give you various documents (worth looking at them all. The first one, here, states "The President announced his intention to nominate Michael D. Brown
to be Under Secretary for Emergency Preparedness and Response at the
Department of Homeland Security."
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I had a hard time finding any articles in the Washington Post or in any major paper about Michael Brown's promotion to Director of FEMA.
I did find two articles in Denver papers -- he was Colorado local at one point. See below.
1.
Copyright 2003 The Denver Post
All Rights Reserved
The Denver Post
January 14, 2003 Tuesday 1ST EDITION
SECTION: DENVER & THE WEST; Pg. B-08
LENGTH: 484 words
HEADLINE: EDITORIAL Good pick for FEMA successor
Copyright 2003 The Denver Post
All Rights Reserved
The Denver Post
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January 12, 2003 Sunday 1ST EDITION
SECTION: A SECTION; Pg. A-08
LENGTH: 233 words
HEADLINE: FEMA official from Aurora selected for security postEARLY EDITION
BYLINE: Bill McAllister , Denver Post Washington Bureau