Senator Mary Landrieu, D-La., today held a hearing on disaster recovery efforts in Galveston, Texas, one year after Hurricane Ike devastated the region and four years after Hurricane Rita. Prior to the hearing, Senator Hutchison and Galveston Mayor Lyda Ann Thomas joined the Senator for a tour of the Island and its small businesses to review recovery progress (see also U.S. Senate Committee on Small Business & Entrepreneurship).
The hearing and tour compared the federal, state and local governments' coordinated response to Hurricane Ike with the response three years earlier to Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. The response to Ike improved due to reforms spearheaded by …
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