Landrieu Spices Up Debate on Federal Hurricane Aid

By Michelle R. Davis
Washington

Sen. Mary L. Landrieu is all business as she sits in her office in the Hart Senate office building here discussing the effects of Hurricane Katrina on her hometown of New Orleans.

There’s no hint of the woman who, in the days after floodwaters raced through the city, said she’d like to punch President Bush for a fumbled federal response, or who held the Senate floor until 2 a.m. on a day in October exhorting lawmakers to send federal aid to hurricane victims.

That is, until she discusses the possibility that conservative House Republicans will try to block a Senate-passed hurricane education aid plan from becoming law. Then the...

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