Reid challenges Bush to improve disaster response

[NVMojo]

WASHINGTON -- Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid goaded President Bush to launch a "major presidential initiative" to bolster a national strategy for responding to terrorist attacks.

In a Wednesday letter to Bush, Reid, D-Nev., and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., wrote that the federal government's response to Hurricane Katrina was a wake-up call that the nation is not prepared to respond to a disaster.

"Hurricane Katrina laid waste to the Gulf Coast," the lawmakers wrote. "We hope that terrorists are never able to do the same. We believe there are steps that must be taken now to minimize that possibility."

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http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/lv-gov/2005/sep/15/519360456.html

[samsingh]

1. bush had four years to improve this response and has been lousy

[NVMojo]

2. I hope Reid keeps up the pressure and the urgency ...