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  After Katrina's telethons, it's Congress' turn
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Last EditedWabash  Sep 21, 2005 11:20am
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MediaNewspaper - Lafayette Journal and Courier
News DateWednesday, September 21, 2005 05:00:00 PM UTC0:0
DescriptionU.S. Rep. John Hostettler has been painted every despicable shade of cheap since he joined a single-digit minority of House members who voted against the first $52 billion laid out for Hurricane Katrina relief.

This week, Hostettler, famously tight on federal spending, took a stab at it: "No congressman or senator is showing compassion by sending tax dollars down to Katrina (victims)," he told the Terre Haute Tribune-Star. Instead, he said, it was a "compulsion" to blindly send money to the Gulf Coast with no way to account for how it is spent, and added up to a "perfect storm for our budget . . .

We'd echo Hostettler's call for accountability. While trying to account for the impending, Gulf Coast landfall of Hurricane Rita and the rest of a hurricane season only half finished, there are already complaints about who is getting contracts to do clean-up work and an administration edict to suspend some minimum construction wage provisions paid by federal contractors.
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