House Approves $19.2 Billion More for Gulf Coast Rebuild
The House has passed legislation that provides an additional $19 billion in federal aid to continue rebuilding and repairing Gulf Coast housing, levees and other infrastructure battered by last year's hurricanes. Other supplemental spending bills enacted since the storms have included $87 billion in relief funds.
The Gulf Coast aid is part of a $92-billion supplemental spending package that the House approved March 16, on a 348-71 vote. The largest share of the overall package is $68 billion allotted to the Dept. of Defense for the war in Iraq and military operations in Afghanistan.