April 14, 2006

Senate Bill Offers Hurricane Relief

By STEPHEN BURD

The Appropriations Committee in the U.S. Senate approved legislation last week that would provide $30-million in federal grants and at least $300-million in government loans to colleges in the Gulf Coast that were damaged by last year's devastating hurricanes.

The panel included those provisions in an emergency spending bill of more than $100-billion, which provides additional appropriations this year to help finance the war in Iraq and hurricane relief in Gulf Coast states. Senate

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