Joseph Votel

White House

Federal Service Impasses Panel back in action

In today’s Federal Newscast, the Federal Service Impasses Panel is back to work with all new members.

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Joseph Votel

Plans, like for disaster response, are great only if you can carry them out

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(AP Photo/Carlos Giusti)FEMA

Nonprofit recommends amending Stafford Act to include FEMA in pandemic, cyber incident response

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(AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)FILE - In this Jan. 7, 2021, file photo, people line up at a COVID-19 walk-up testing site on the Martin Luther King Jr. Medical Campus in Los Angeles. Coronavirus deaths and cases per day in the U.S. dropped markedly over the past couple of weeks but are still running at alarmingly high levels, and the effort to snuff out COVID-19 is becoming an ever more urgent race between the vaccine and the mutating virus. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez, File)

How can the US prepare better when things go wrong?

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