Katrina Coverage

On October 5, former president Bill Clinton visited Louisiana on a fact-finding tour and made these points among others:

- give rebuilding jobs to those affected, not out-of-state firms: For long-term work, Clinton said it's important to "hire people from Louisiana even if they have to be retrained."
- repeal the suspension of Davis-Bacon
- "We need to do something to try to recover the wetlands… We have let a lot of those wetlands go."

Previously: Bubba blasts Bush over Katrina, poverty, lack of omnipotence…

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