Time is slipping away

[HeeBGBz]

http://www.sunherald.com/mld/sunherald/13381082.htm

Hopes for federal aid face do-or-die week

By GEOFF PENDER


JACKSON - Thousands of homeowners and South Mississippi's overall Katrina recovery face a do-or-die situation in Congress this week, in part because of partisan politics surrounding indicted Republican leader U.S. Rep. Tom DeLay.

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If the relief is not passed this week, before Congress breaks for Christmas, it could be put on hold indefinitely. Talk on Capitol Hill last week was House Republican leaders would delay returning to Washington until at least Jan. 31, an effort to give DeLay a chance to clear himself in court next month of a money laundering indictment so he could be reinstated as House majority leader in the new year.

Barbour and Coast officials, testifying before the House last week, warned that many South Mississippians are on the bubble financially and emotionally. The grace periods on their mortgages for their destroyed homes have ended. They have no insurance payout coming because the federal government told them they didn't need flood coverage. Their jobs are gone and many face bankruptcy. They may give up on rebuilding and start a mass exodus soon, Barbour warned, sucking the wind out of rebuilding efforts.

[merh]

1. Did you post in GD or LBN?

We need more exposure than this forum.

[HeeBGBz]

2. No

Wanna cross post?

[merh]

3. I don't have it in me tonight to get this going.

I wish I did, it is important that we get as many as we can involved in making their congress critters know that this is important and needs to be passed.

[HeeBGBz]

4. Done

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=5574530&mesg_id=5574530

[merh]

5. thanks

[EFerrari]

6. Thanks! n/t