DeLay blames local officials--cancels hearings on Katrina

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

DeLay points to local officials
House cancels hearings; joint panel to look at Katrina response



Wednesday, September 7, 2005; Posted: 10:12 a.m. EDT (14:12 GMT)



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House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, right, and Speaker Dennis Hastert  
speak about the response to Hurricane Katrina Tuesday.

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WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The House majority leader late Tuesday tried to  
deflect criticism of the federal response to Hurricane Katrina by  
saying "the emergency response system was set up to work from the  
bottom up," then announced a short time later that House hearings  
examining that response had been canceled.

Rep. Tom DeLay, R-Texas, said House Republican leaders instead want a  
joint House-Senate panel set up to conduct a "congressional review"  
of the issue.

Tempers flared Tuesday during a contentious closed-door meeting  
between House members and Cabinet secretaries in charge of directing  
Katrina relief efforts. A Republican representative stood up and  
said, "All of you deserve failing grades. The response was a  
disaster," CNN was told by lawmakers emerging from the meeting.

But DeLay countered that assessment later in a news conference by  
saying that the onus for responding to emergencies fell to local  
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http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/09/07/katrina.congress/index.html



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