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Senators Fume at White House Disdain for Katrina Healthcare Plan
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| Last Edited | ArmyDem Oct 02, 2005 04:15pm |
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| News Date | Sunday, October 2, 2005 10:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Finance Committee members of both parties want to give Medicaid to victims for months. A Cabinet member says that's unnecessary.
By Mary Curtius, Times Staff Writer
September 29, 2005
Latimes.com : Politics
WASHINGTON — Senate Finance Committee members accused the White House on Wednesday of blocking a bipartisan $9-billion healthcare package for Hurricane Katrina victims.
Republicans' publicly deepening dispute over the federal role in the recovery came at a hearing where the governors of Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana, the three states hardest hit by Katrina, pleaded for more help.
Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Babineaux Blanco told the panel that 41% of her state's businesses had been destroyed or forced to close. "To bring our folks home, we need jobs, housing and rebuilt communities," she said.
Committee members promised to consider additional tax breaks and other measures to encourage reconstruction, but they spent much of their time fuming about administration opposition to the healthcare package introduced last week by Finance Committee Chairman Charles E. Grassley (R-Iowa) and Vice Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.). |
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