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Senator pushes for full funding to fight avian flu
The $7.1 billion requested by Bush is a fraction of the $675 billion an outbreak could cost the United States, majority leader says.
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House-Senate negotiators working to finish spending bills
House speaker continues push for 1 percent across-the-board cut.
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HUD official discusses department’s role in Katrina recovery
Plan to rebuild low-income housing stock is a work in progress, assistant secretary for public and Indian housing says.
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Transportation IG to identify pork available for Katrina relief
Inspectors search highway accounts for earmarks that Congress could redirect to damaged roads and bridges on Gulf Coast.
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Senator eyes unspent Iraq funds for hurricane reconstruction
Additional offsets for recovery could come in form of across-the-board cuts to fiscal 2006 appropriations.
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Rift on Katrina relief, bird flu complicates Defense spending negotiations
Key appropriator from Mississippi wants more than double the $17.1 billion in hurricane aid proposed by the White House.
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House panel calls plan for tracking avian flu 'inadequate'
Committee members say the $250 million tagged for tracing the virus overseas where it is emerging falls far short of what’s needed.
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