Texas will get a full waiver. That means all costs incurred from the evacuees under the Medicaid system, because we have to take care of them medically, will be covered for the next five months,
Texas has about a 40 percent match, so that would just have been millions upon millions of dollars.
This is just another in a long line of examples of how difficult it has been to get funding down to Texas for Hurricane Katrina and Rita relief.
It's going to take . . . our entire Texas delegation, here and on the House side, to keep this whole. Obviously, there's a lot of projects in the bill that people want to keep.
Gov. Bush is winning Texas just like he's winning the rest of the country right now. I don't think Gov. Bush or we at the RNC would feel any threat by President Clinton going down there.