Blue Dog Coalition member U.S. Rep. Gene Taylor (D-Miss.) expressed concerns about the plan, saying after Hurricane Katrina, his state had a “desperate need for generators” and warned that “something like Katrina is going to happen again, whether it’s man-made, or the hand of God.” Taylor challenged the panel of witnesses, asking “to what extent are you taking those things that the military says they don’t need anymore and putting them on line… and to what extent are you making those things available to cities, states, and counties?” Flournoy and Alan Estevez, Acting Deputy Defense Undersecretary for Logistics and Material Readiness, said the goods sold to the ISF would be screened for U.S. need, to which Estevez responded: "the Department, in coordination with the General Services Administration, which is responsible for the transfer of excess property to state and local entities, has established a process that would allow state and local entities the opportunity to screen excess property in Iraq, prior to it being transferred to the Iraqi government." Estevez added that the property is likely unusable by the states because of their foreign volt specifications. Full Article at Talk Radio News Service