Questions for the FEMA Director on Hurricane Response

The Director of FEMA, Brock Long will testify today and here are my questions that I hope someone asks.

1. Was your statement that you were "filtering out the comments" of the Mayor of San Juan come from a sexist position or just disrespectful of elected leaders in a jurisdiction or both? 
2. Has filtering out the comments of the elected Mayor of a major American city helped the people of Puerto Rico?
3. What are you doing to reduce the time people in Houston wait on the phone for a FEMA staff member to get an answer regarding flood assistance? 
4. If you realized that the island was not able to get the power up quickly isn't that the job of FEMA to step in to prevent disasters like nursing homes without power, people in intensive care dying because the hospital has no power or homeless shelters without diesel for weeks? 
5. Why wasn't anyone distributing food to the millions without power in Puerto Rico in the aftermath of the power outages?
6. Is there a plan to give the American people a full accounting of how many people died as a result of the inept recovery efforts in Puerto Rico?
7. Why did you not get the ports and airport up and functioning first and not two weeks later?
8. Are we confident that the water system that is functioning 40 days after the disaster is safe?
9. Why have you not published your Puerto Rico hurricane disaster plan to the public? 
10. Do you realize that the majority of Puerto Ricans feel like second class Americans after this slow response to their disaster when compared to Houston and the Florida Keys?  What are you going to do to restore confidence in the United States by Puerto Ricans?

by Brian Davis