Word: cleanup
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...Republicans have discussed using the fiscal savings of one bill to help pay for breast-cancer screenings, for instance. But they are also likely to promote bigger proposals, like health-insurance protection for the first six months of unemployment, educational reforms to benefit the disabled, and Superfund toxic-waste cleanup. One congressional group, the Renewal Alliance, which includes such Republicans as House Budget Committee chairman John Kasich and Senators Dan Coats and John Ashcroft, will meet for the first time this week to push a menu of compassion-loaded programs, including flextime, charity tax credits and enterprise zones. Says Kasich...
Many of the 80 or so evacuated students stayed in the House’s dining hall and junior common room while the initial cleanup began. They were able to return temporarily to their rooms later that morning in order to gather belongings that they needed for class. Crews worked throughout the day to clean up the building, remove damaged ceilings, check the electrical systems and alarms, and install the dehumidification systems to begin clearing away the wetness, according to Senior Tutor Stephen Karg?...
...Louisiana the cleanup of the two-part disaster is just getting started. But many of the state's best engineering and environmental minds are already looking much further down the road, at what it will take to safely maintain humankind's precarious foothold at the water's edge. Louisiana's coastal towns have vowed to rebuild, but will they ever truly be safe...
...heels. But unless the President appoints an independent czar to oversee the entire reconstruction operation, Democrats and Republicans alike fear it may be as poorly managed as the initial response to the storm. FEMA's track record before Katrina isn't too encouraging: during last year's $2 billion cleanup of Hurricane Frances, millions of relief dollars ended up in the hands of residents in the largely unaffected area around Miami...
...cutting corners doesn't necessarily make things run faster. In many parts of Louisiana and Mississippi, frustration is building over the slow recovery. Relatively few of the promised federal help centers to coordinate assistance have been opened, while some local officials have struggled to get contracts for cleanup projects approved in Washington. Numerous victims of Hurricane Katrina have had trouble applying for assistance, whether online or on the telephone, though bandwidth and staffing have been greatly increased in recent days. One of three Carnival Cruise Lines ships that was chartered to house thousands of relief workers and possibly evacuees...