TOTAL INFORMATION ANALYSIS

Wednesday, March 28, 2007

From the office of U.S. Senator Mary Landrieu, 03/27/2007:

"The White House today released a Statement of Administration Policy reaffirming its opposition to fair hurricane funding rules and levee construction in S. 965, the Senate Supplemental Appropriations Bill. U.S. Senator Mary L. Landrieu, D-La., secured language in the bill to waive the 10 percent local cost match required of Hurricane Katrina-, Rita- and Wilma-affected communities for disaster recovery projects. She also secured $1.3 billion to cover a shortfall for east and west bank levee projects in New Orleans and surrounding parishes, which was originally authorized in the 3rd supplemental in 2005.

According to the statement, "because of the excessive and extraneous non-emergency spending it contains, if this legislation were presented to the President, he would veto the bill." ...

"The Administration continues to hold Louisiana and the Gulf Coast to a different standard than all other disaster-stricken communities," Sen. Landrieu said. "Our communities withstood an unprecedented disaster, but the Administration continues to oppose giving the region the same funding tools that he gave after 9/11 and his father gave to Hurricane Andrew victims in 1992. This match requirement, and the paperwork it creates, paralyzes the recovery of Louisiana's schools, firehouses and small businesses.

"The President could remove much of this red tape with a stroke of his pen, and as long as our communities must meet this requirement, recovery will continue to be slow.

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