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Hillary's Katrina Commission voted down on party lines

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Hillary Clinton's version of a Katrina Commission was voted down yesterday along party lines:

Senator Clinton's bill would have created a blue-ribbon bipartisan panel modelled on the committee that probed the September 11, 2001 terror attacks on New York and Washington.

The former first lady said after the vote: "What happened today on the Senate floor is the same thing that happened four years ago when our nation was desperately searching for answers after 9/11.

"Urgent calls for an independent commission were repeatedly ignored, but the American people did not fall silent. They continued to demand action and eventually the administration relinquished its opposition to the 9/11 Commission," the New York Democrat said…

One Response to “Hillary's Katrina Commission voted down on party lines”

  1. Capital Region People Says:

    Clinton Time

    The politics that have come to head in the wake of the Hurricane are tailor-made for Bill & Hillary. America, once again, it's Clinton Time!

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