Katrina Coverage

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Hillary Clinton on the vast White House conspiracy to keep Dems out of LA

February 7th, 2006
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There she goes again with her conspiracies, but at least this time she's naming names:
SAN FRANCISCO — Senator Clinton told a largely friendly audience here Saturday night [1/28/06] that the slow pace of government-sponsored reconstruction following Hurricane Katrina was the result of a deliberate decision by the Bush administration and may have been motivated by […]

Hillary Clinton: Give Katrina aid to illegal aliens

October 2nd, 2005
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It shouldn't come as a surprise the Hillary Clinton and other Senate Democrats want to give aid to illegal aliens who were affected by Katrina. And, they don't want to just give aid, they want the DHS to make clear that those people who shouldn't be here in the first place won't be deported.
But, wait, […]

Hillary's Katrina Commission voted down on party lines

September 15th, 2005
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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 […]

Hillary blasts Bush, raises cash

September 14th, 2005
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At a fundraiser on Sep 12, Hillary Clinton described the federal response to Katrina as "total breakdown in leadership" at the White House:
"How could we, as Americans, have let this happen?" she fumed to donors, in quotes picked up by the New York Post.
The top Democrat also cited Katrina to undermine Bush's image as a […]

Moveon.org wants a Katrina Commission

September 13th, 2005
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Received via email:
Will you sign our petition for an independent Katrina Commission?
Senators, including many moderate Republicans, are deciding whether to support a Katrina Commission modeled after the 9/11 Commission, this week. We need a really big number of people to sign the petition to show senators and representatives how much support there is for the […]

"Dems Blast Bush Over Hurricane Response"

September 7th, 2005
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AP:
…Democrats, armed with talking points and in close consultation, went into full battle mode Wednesday on the Republican administration's handling of the crisis.
[Hillary] Clinton called for an independent commission to study the response and made the rounds of four network morning television shows on Wednesday.
Of Brown, director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, Clinton told […]

"FEMA Head Bears the Brunt of Katrina Anger"

September 7th, 2005
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AP:
He's been called an idiot, an incompetent and worse. The vilification of federal disaster chief Michael Brown, emerging as chief scapegoat for whatever went wrong in the government's response to Hurricane Katrina, has ratcheted into the stratosphere. Democratic members of Congress are taking numbers to call for his head.
"I would never have appointed such a […]