Brown out at FEMA

"Brownie, you're doing a heck of a job," President Bush told appointee Michael Brown on Sept. 2 during a tour of the crippled region.

But with many members of Congress calling for Brown to be fired, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff on Friday appointed Coast Guard Vice Adm. Thad Allen to replace Brown as the principal federal official overseeing the government response in the affected states. Chertoff said it was his decision to move Brown back to agency headquarters, where he will monitor Hurricane Ophelia, among other duties.

"I have directed Mike Brown to return to administering FEMA nationally," Chertoff said at a news conference in Baton Rouge, La. "Mike Brown has done everything he possibly could to coordinate" the federal role.

But the change also came after Time magazine and Newsday raised questions about whether Brown padded his résumé — a claim the FEMA chief has denied.

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