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Va?s Gulf Coast Facilities Will Be Rebuilt
CRAIG TOLD VA?S GULF COAST FACILITIES WILL BE REBUILT
Chairman Larry Craig listens as Mississippi Senator Trent Lott makes a point during the heairng. Although not members of the Veterans' Affairs Committee, Mississippi Senators Trent Lott and Thad Cochran, and Louisiana Senator Mary Landrieu attended today's hearing November 10, 2005 Contact: Jeff Schrade (202)224-9093 (Washington, DC) At a hearing today in Washington, DC, U.S. Senator Larry Craig and other members of the Senate Veterans? Affairs Committee were reassured that the VA is dedicated to rebuilding its presence in both Louisiana and Mississippi. "It isn?t going to be easy and it isn?t going to be cheap, but we clearly have an opportunity to do things right and do them better," said Craig. "The President?s supplemental appropriation identifies $845 million for a new VA medical center in New Orleans, and when I saw that number, I said ?Wow.?" (To watch the hearing and/or read Secretary Nicholson's comments on-line, click: HERE.) According to Secretary of Veterans Affairs Jim Nicholson, who testified at the hearing, the Bush administration has included $1.38 billion dollars for VA recovery and rebuilding in the request to Congress for supplemental appropriations. The request includes $1.15 billion to rebuild the New Orleans Medical Center and to repair and add a bed tower to the medical center in Biloxi following the destruction of the Gulfport complex. It also includes $25 million to allow the VA to furnish and begin the replacement of a regional office in New Orleans.
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thats great news for the veterans of the gulf coast
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Is the rebuild area be any safer than what was destroyed, or will we taxpayers just get stuck with another bill when the next hurricane hits there? Perhaps the same question should be asked of any subsidized rebuilding project.
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