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WASHINGTON — Senate Democrats on Tuesday unveiled legislation providing $6 billion in new disaster aid to help victims of both Hurricane Irene and past disasters dating to Hurricane Katrina. A Senate Appropriations subcommittee responsible for the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s budget approved the measure by voice vote.
At the same time, the measure’s author, Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La., said that with FEMA’s disaster-aid coffers running dangerously low, it may be necessary to add additional, more immediate disaster aid to a stopgap funding bill that’s expected to be enacted before the FEMA funding measure.
