Mntsnow
09-09-2005, 10:55 AM
Congress agreed Thursday to spend an additional $51.8 billion on Hurricane Katrina relief and recovery efforts, in what could be the last show of bipartisanship in a bitterly divisive fight over the Bush administration's handling of the disaster.
The money, which comes on top of $10.5 billion that Congress approved last week, brings spending on federal recovery efforts in coastal Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama to $62.3 billion. Before it's over, federal spending could top $200 billion, several lawmakers estimated Thursday.
Read more at SFchronicle (http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2005/09/09/MNGDVEKU991.DTL)
The money, which comes on top of $10.5 billion that Congress approved last week, brings spending on federal recovery efforts in coastal Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama to $62.3 billion. Before it's over, federal spending could top $200 billion, several lawmakers estimated Thursday.
Read more at SFchronicle (http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2005/09/09/MNGDVEKU991.DTL)