By AMY HARDER
Updated at 3:05 p.m.
President Obama today announced the nomination of Craig Fugate as director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Fugate is currently the director of the Florida division of Emergency Management. Before being appointed to this post in 2001 by then-Florida Gov. Jeb Bush (R), Fugate had a 15-year career in local government as a firefighter, paramedic and emergency manager for Alachua County, Fla. Gov. Charlie Crist (R) reappointed Fugate in December 2006.
Fugate will join Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano at an event Thursday in New Orleans. DHS also announced today that Napolitano has appointed Jason McNamara as FEMA chief of staff. McNamara is currently director of emergency management at Dewberry, a consulting firm based in Arlington, Va.
If confirmed, Fugate will face the task of overseeing an agency widely criticized for its handling of Hurricane Katrina in 2005, which has spurred a debate over whether FEMA should become a stand-alone agency again, as it was before DHS was formed. DHS Inspector General Richard Skinner argued against removing FEMA from DHS in a February report, as did a recent Center for Strategic and International Studies panel.
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