To the editor:

While being no fan of Michael Brown, it was very interesting to listen to the House hearing, or lack of it, Tuesday. It wasn’t Michael Brown who limited the budget for FEMA over the past years. It wasn’t Michael Brown who passed the Homeland Security bill that moved FEMA under the Homeland Security bureaucracy. It wasn’t Michael Brown who made the FEMA director a non-Congress approved appointment. It wasn’t Michael Brown who cut funding from the Army Corps of Engineers for levee improvements. It wasn’t Michael Brown who turned FEMA management into a political payback club. But it was Michael Brown being blamed by our wonderful and great Congress. Isn’t Washington profound?

William Perkins,

Lawrence