WASHINGTON -- U.S. Rep. Gene Taylor of Mississippi wasn't about to let former FEMA Director Michael Brown get away with blaming state and local officials in Louisiana for the failed response to Hurricane Katrina. "You can try to throw as much as you can on the backs of Louisiana, but I'm a witness as to what happened in Mississippi," Taylor told Brown during Tuesday's hearing by a House select committee set up to investigate the response. "You folks fell on your face. You get an F minus in my book." With House Democratic leaders boycotting the hearing while holding out...