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Demo lawmakers study school crisis Criticism of FEMA renewed during tour

March 21, 2006
New Orleans Times Picayune
By James Varney
Staff writer

A delegation of congressional Democrats began a two-day visit to Katrina-ravaged zones Monday, focusing on education issues as they surveyed the wreckage for the first time. Like nearly every Washington official who has trod the storm surge path, the visitors were stunned by the extent of damage to the New Orleans area, and attributed most of the recovery signs they encountered to individual initiative rather than governmental action.

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