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...other obvious distinction is that, as a governor, she can be expected to have much more sympathy for states, which have felt disrespected and excluded under a top-down approach to homeland-security issues since 9/11. "The trust between federal, state and locals is just not there," says Ray Scheppach, executive director of the National Governors Association. Governors, including Napolitano, have protested the costs of REAL ID, a 2005 law passed by Congress to upgrade the security of drivers' licenses, as well as the failure of the Federal Government to take a lead in repairing the country's immigration policies...
...there is the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), which has been under fire ever since Hurricane Katrina. "Fifteen years ago, if I had surveyed every state employee and said, 'What is the one federal organization that you think does a great job,' it would have been overwhelmingly FEMA," says Scheppach. "Now, if I ask what is the one organization that is a failure, they would probably point to FEMA." Scheppach, who knows Napolitano from her time as chair of his organization, expects that she will work to rebuild the trust between the Feds and the locals, which will...
...stiffest increases have been in health-care costs. Medicaid spending by states rose 18.4% in fiscal 1990 alone. Thus many of them are struggling with the prospect of big budget cuts and higher taxes, or drawing on reserves. "It's going to be batten down the hatches," says Ray Scheppach, executive director of the National Governors' Association. "The big question is how deep this recession is going...
...dealing fairly with the states. Said David Runkel, a spokesman for Pennsylvania Governor Richard Thornburgh: "We had to take certain steps since 1980 to reduce our own budgetary imbalances. Should our success now be used by the Federal Government to say they can take advantage of it?" Agreed Raymond Scheppach, executive director of the NGA: "The Governors want to be helpful in trying to get the deficit down. But states have already made a major contribution to that end in the last three years...
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