She expressed her concerns to Senator Bond that this should not be taking place on an appropriations bill.
Senator Hutchison will continue to be a constant presence in Texas.
Sen. Hutchison is very impressed with the progress the cities are making, but it is too early in the process to discuss an endgame.
Harlingen specifically needs a new clinic with updated and upgraded services.
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,
It is like writing the game plan for the Super Bowl the day after it was played.
Our resources are stretched to the limit, and in some cases, beyond the limits.
You are actually downgrading our homeland security and not adding to it in a time of war. That is shortsighted.
We're just going to wait for the markup.
While she is always concerned when there is foreign operations of a port terminal, the UAE has been a good ally on the war on terror.
Texas has about a 40 percent match, so that would just have been millions upon millions of dollars.
As parents, Senator and Mister Hutchison decided that as their children near school age, they should be with their mom.
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.