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WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama will nominate Florida emergency manager W. Craig Fugate to lead the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the White House said Wednesday.
If confirmed by the Senate, Fugate, 49, would assume the politically sensitive job of heading a 4,400-worker bureaucracy that was widely blamed for the Bush administration’s bungled response to Hurricane Katrina in August 2005.
Fugate declined to comment but will join Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano during a visit today to New Orleans to review ongoing Katrina recovery efforts.
