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...After taking a week off, Congress returns to work, with GOP members divided with President Bush on some issues and among themselves on others. Following Hurricane Katrina, the federal government offered more than $60 billion to the Gulf Coast, and Bush gave a speech last month in which he laid out what sounded like billions more in spending for that area. But GOP fiscal conservatives, long unhappy about the increasing levels of federal spending over the last several years, have instead seized the upper hand, insisting that the high spending on Katrina means the government needs to cut back everywhere...
...Congress, worried about wasteful spending, will continue their debate with the Bush administration over how to handle the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Sen. Tom Coburn has asked Bush to appoint a CFO to monitor Katrina spending, Sen. Judd Gregg continues to call for a separate government agency to oversee Gulf Coast reconstruction and Sen. Chuck Grassley wants to create special Medicaid funding for Katrina victims. The administration has declined to support any of these proposals...
...strengthen tropical storms, we need only look north to find alarming signs of warming trends. Many studies document melting polar ice caps, thinning permafrost and rising sea and air temperatures in the Arctic, which threaten the livelihood of people native to the region. Like so many helpless Gulf Coast residents, those people will suffer because of a profound denial of responsibility. Climate change is a global problem that needs a global solution...
...Katrina relief efforts. The end of the matching-funds drive comes exactly one week after a 7.6-magnitude earthquake rocked Kashmir, killing an estimated 20,000 to 40,000 people. But although the earthquake has created a humanitarian crisis that dwarfs even the devastation that Katrina wrought along the Gulf Coast, Harvard has chosen to value lives in Louisiana and Mississippi above those in Pakistan and India. This is not the University’s first attempt to play the role of freelance philanthropist. In September 2001, Harvard pledged $1 million to fund scholarships for the children of terror victims...
...surpass 50,000, and many thousands more have been injured and left homeless. Most likely, says one U.S. military source, McFadden and the others will return to their perilous combat duties in Afghanistan, and other choppers will be diverted to Pakistan from U.S. bases and aircraft carriers in the Gulf, where they are serving as vital backup to the Iraq war. That would put yet another burden on the U.S.'s thinly stretched resources in its two battle theaters of Iraq and Afghanistan. "Fixing Pakistan is going to take a while," one U.S. army official remarked ruefully...