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On Jan 31, 6:38 am, tedor...@hotmail.com wrote:
> On Jan 31, 5:49 am, "Patriot Games" <Crazy_Bast...@Yahoo.com> wrote:
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> >http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2007/1/30/155752.shtml?s=us
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> > Congressional Black Caucus Wants Katrina Committee
> > NewsMax.com Wires Wednesday, Jan. 31, 2007
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> > WASHINGTON -- The Congressional Black Caucus has asked House Speaker Nancy
> > Pelosi to form a new committee on Hurricane Katrina to focus more urgently
> > on rebuilding the Gulf Coast, particularly New Orleans.
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> > "The Bush administration has turned its back on our fellow Americans, the
> > victims of the greatest disaster on American soil in our generation," CBC
> > Chairwoman Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick, D-Mich., wrote in a letter to Pelosi.
> > "How can we talk about reconstruction abroad when we cannot help our fellow
> > Americans at home?"
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> > Kilpatrick blasted President Bush for not mentioning Katrina in his State of
> > the Union address last week and said forming a select House committee on the
> > issue "offers the best hope for development."
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> > A Pelosi spokesman, Drew Hammill, said Tuesday he had not seen the letter
> > but that the office would look closely at the request.
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> > In an interview with National Public Radio on Monday, Bush defended the
> > administration's handling of the rebuilding, saying the federal government
> > has sent some $110 billion to Mississippi and Louisiana, some of it still
> > waiting to be spent.
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> > "Obviously there is more work to be done," he said, according to a
> > transcript of the interview. "But no, our response to the Katrina recovery
> > has been very robust. And I appreciate the taxpayers of the United States
> > helping the folks down there."
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> > At a Senate hearing in New Orleans on Monday, Mayor Ray Nagin said that 17
> > months after the storm hit, he doesn't see evidence of "the will to really
> > fix New Orleans." He said the slow progress can be partly attributed to
> > class and racial discrimination.
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> > Nagin said he is not asking for more money, just that the money allocated
> > get to the city faster.
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> > As of Jan. 18, the Federal Emergency Management Agency had agreed to pay
> > $334 million for infrastructure repairs in New Orleans, but Louisiana had
> > forwarded only $145 million to the city. State officials have said city
> > leaders failed to provide required documentation, which Nagin called
> > cumbersome.
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> > The CBC declined to release the full text of its letter to Pelosi but
> > provided excerpts.
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> > Kilpatrick said CBC members met last week to discuss a specific agenda for
> > addressing the situation. The proposals include forgiving debt for the city
> > of New Orleans and the state of Louisiana, providing more money for
> > transitional housing and public safety, and repealing liability immunity for
> > the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, which has acknowledged design failures in
> > the levees that were supposed to protect New Orleans.
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> I'm sure that communities that received "Nawlins" residents would love
> to have their
> visiting negroes returned ASAP.
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How about a nationwide "share the negro" program? Don't jostle, line
forming to the right.

gregory