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Chris Kromm

Chris Kromm is Executive Director of the Institute for Southern Studies, a non-profit research center based in Durham, N.C., and co-author of "The Mardi Gras Index: The State of New Orleans Six Months After Katrina." Gulf Coast Reconstruction Watch, a project of the Institute, was launched in November 2005 to investigative and document the rebuilding process in the post-hurricane Southern Gulf. Mr. Kromm can be contacted at [email protected].

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House Katrina Package: Much Too Little; Much Too Late

By Chris Kromm

This article originally appeared in Gulf Coast Reconstruction Watch. On March 16, by a vote of 348-71, the House passed a bill to provide $19.1 billion for cleanup and rebuilding of the Gulf Coast in the wake of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. H.R. 4939, “The Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act for Defense, the Global War on…

This article originally appeared in Gulf Coast Reconstruction Watch. On March 16, by a vote of 348-71, the House passed a bill to provide $19.1 billion…

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