House Members Tour Katrina-Damaged Areas

[Purveyor]

Source: Associated Press

(08-13) 17:36 PDT Pass Christian, Miss. (AP) --

A key congressman reassured beleaguered teachers and school administrators Monday that Congress is working to speed recovery in the hurricane-ravaged Gulf Coast of Mississippi and Louisiana.

House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn noted a House bill that would provide millions of dollars for affordable housing on the coast nearly two years after Hurricane Katrina. He also said the Democrat-led Congress would support removing the Federal Emergency Management Agency from the Department of Homeland Security.

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Rep. Gene Taylor, a Mississippi Democrat, has proposed adding wind coverage to the National Flood Insurance Program, which was created in 1968 to help homeowners living in flood-prone areas get flood insurance to complement private policies. Taylor said he did not know the cost of providing wind coverage.

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Rep. Charles Melancon, D-La., told The Associated Press the devastation in New Orleans was "a making of our own government" — a reference to the catastrophic levee failures in Katrina's wake.

Read more: http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2007/08/13/national/a145450D20.DTL

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Thank the lords!

I thought they 'all' had gone to israel for the AIPAC 'expenses paid' junkets...

[emilyg]

1. Let's stop the touring

and start the re-building. This "promises" crap has gone on too long.

[partylessinOhio]

2. TWO YEARS and still dollars short?

Shouldn't all of you have put Katrina on the table when you installed Madame Squeaker in January? What the hell have you been waiting for?

You don't need to take a tour to know that little has been done for the victims of Katrina.

George Bush failed Katrina and so have you, Congress/Senate people!

:thumbsdown:

[TheCowsCameHome]

3. Is this something dated 2005?

[Booster]

4. If you can fund the killing in Iraq, you can damn sure fund the

rebuilding of the Gulf. I'm sick of all this bullshit.