At a Committee on Financial Services subcommittee hearing on implementation of Hurricane Katrina relief funds, Director of the Mississippi State Governor’s Office of Recovery and Renewal Jack Norris asks Congress to “streamline or waive” the “cumbersome” environmental regulations that he says are the “number one impediment” to providing affordable housing for victims. (0:42)

 

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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)

 

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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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