Wait, you're giving it to who?

So today the Senate approved almost $52 billion in additional funding for the relief efforts. Excellent. How mighty white of them. What I just don't understand is how after the catastrophic failures of the last 10 days, $50 billion of that can be earmarked for FEMA. What the hell? Who wrote this measure? Even if we were to completely ignore FEMA's abyssmal efforts in caring for the people affected by Katrina and the complete lack of disaster relief experience at the highest levels of FEMA, there's still the fact that they're an *emergency management* agency. It's right there in the name, right? They're not a recovery and reconstruction agency. They're not organized for it and it's not their job. And considering how poorly they did their job, I certainly don't see any reason to hand them another one - let alone fifty billion freakin' dollars. Washington is just a whole 'nother planet to me.