At a Committee on Financial Services subcommittee hearing, Rep. Gene Green (D-Texas) responds to Mississippi’s allocation of Hurricane Katrina relief funds by saying that they should not “put the port above the people.” (1:07)
The House Subcommittee on Housing and Community Opportunity of the Committee on Financial Services held a hearing to assess the implementation of Community Development Block Grant funds for post-Hurricane Katrina reconstruction among the states impacted along the Gulf Coast.
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Rep. Sam Johnson (R-TX) explains the goals of the New Employment Verification Act at a House Ways and Means Committee hearing on employment verification systems: to “ensure a legal work force, safeguard worker identities, and protect social security.” (0:22)
At the CWA conference, Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) says America must focus on rebuilding its own infrastructure and proposes a national infrastructure reconstruction bank that will invest $60 billion over ten years for that purpose. He says if America can spend $400 million per day in Iraq and $10 billion a month rebuilding a foreign nation, it can spend $10 billion domestically to put citizens back to work and restructure the economy. (1:00)
