During his confirmation hearing before our committee. Mr. Stewart testified that he expected to be the "central player" at DHS on "lessons learned" from Hurricane Katrina. to develop emergency response policy. and to be a key player on immigration reform. among other matters. Yet when asked at his hearing if he had emergency response experience. he said "no." He also admitted to having little expertise on immigration issues. While no one could be expected to be an expert on all of the issues addressed by DHS. it makes little sense to me to appoint a person with no emergency response experience to be the central player on lessons learned from Katrina. or to appoint a person with little immigration expertise to articulate Federal immigration policy. especially when. over the next few years. both issuesemergency response and Immigrationwill be so prominent at the Department. As we have learned from the Katrina disaster. we cannot afford to have inexperienced people in senior positions at DHS for onthejob training.
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