But the national security problem is more pressing, and for the moment it offers Congress the best chance to redeem itself from its recent inaction.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency, still seeking to redeem itself from its spotty performance after Hurricane Katrina in 2005, had 18 disaster-response teams in place along the East Coast, with stockpiles of food, water and mobile communications equipment ready to go.
Rating: 4 out of 5 – 'The season six finale has set us up for a 2017 of relentless intrigue and gore' Season six has redeemed itself from last season's doldrums.
The holiday season is also the time Hollywood trots out its artistic big guns for Academy Award consideration and tries to redeem itself from the mediocrity of the previous months.
"Moments of economic crisis can also be moments of opportunity, if we show that there is a South that wants to redeem itself from accusations of wastefulness and demonstrate that it can use public resources well," said the Naples mayor, Luigi de Magistris.
Later she is quoted as saying about his country, "Brazil has begun to redeem itself from having supported so many dictators in recent years".
Leah Greenblatt for Entertainment Weekly praised "I Got You", along with "Happy", as they allowed Echo to redeem itself from the "soppy balladry and standard-issue dancery" present on the rest of the album.
There are also some prizes in the bunch: Nelson Freire's courtly, nuanced Nocturnes, on Decca; Alexandre Tharaud's gently eccentric "Journal Intime," on Virgin Classics; and ferocious 1959 and 1967 performances by Martha Argerich, which DG has redeemed itself by retrieving from radio archives.
Then it was time for the defensive pairing of Mironov and Malakhov to redeem itself with a little help from Kovalev late in the second period.
And yet, for all that, the film is redeemed — rescued from itself, ironically, by another mouth.
