02 September 2005

katrina: Collins and Lieberman intend to investigate

obviously necessary "Sen. Susan Collins (news, bio, voting record), a Maine Republican who heads the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee, and Sen. Joseph Lieberman (news, bio, voting record) of Connecticut, the panel's top Democrat, said they plan to begin an oversight investigation next week when the full Senate returns from a summer recess. 'We intend to demand answers as to how this immense failure occurred, but our immediate focus must and will be on what Congress can do to help the rescue and emergency operations that are ongoing,' the senators said in a joint statement." [from Reuters]

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