Sep 14 2005
Cover-up continues
Senate Kills Bid for Katrina Commission WASHINGTON (AP) – Senate Republicans on Wednesday scuttled an attempt by Sen. Hillary Clinton to establish an independent, bipartisan panel patterned after the 9/11 Commission to investigate what went wrong with federal, state and local governments’ response to Hurricane Katrina.
The New York Democrat’s bid to establish the panel – which would have also made recommendations on how to improve the government’s disaster response apparatus – failed to win the two-thirds majority needed to overcome procedural hurdles. Clinton got only 44 votes, all from Democrats and independent Sen. Jim Jeffords of Vermont. Fifty-four Republicans all voted no.
What are they hiding? Why is it that the Republicans never want Americans to know what is happening in their country? Why all the secrets?
