Posted on 10/26/2005 9:00:56 AM PDT by NCSteve
RALEIGH – During the two heartbreaking weeks after Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans and other Gulf Coast communities, Congress passed two separate relief bills totaling $62.3 billion. Supporters portrayed the aid packages as emergency measures and desperately needed. But six weeks later, according to media reports, the federal government has spent or contracted to spend only about a quarter of the money, or $16.2 billion.
Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco expressed disappointment with the relatively slow spending pace, but other politicians and observers – including members of Congress – have registered their satisfaction that careful analysis and bidding procedures have preceded massive federal expenditures. “If anything,” Rep. John Spratt, a South Carolina Democrat, told The Wall Street Journal, federal officials have “probably been a little too quick on the trigger to sign contracts without competitive bidding.”
North Carolina’s Virginia Foxx, a Republican freshman representing the 5th District in Washington, was one of only 11 House members who voted against the second “emergency” relief bill, which totaled $51.8 billion. For this vote, she was excoriated by Democrats in her district and in Raleigh. In retrospect, however, it was Foxx who correctly advocated a less panicked, more reasoned federal response to Katrina.
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NC pingy-thingy?
Right after you finish your course from the Burr vote...The difference here is that Foxx this will probably be the one and only principled vote the woman will make so it's a fluke. Burr will just continue in his wasteful ways.
Not just yet.
There's still the little matter of Virginia taking a walk on the day of the Dell incentives vote. This was after she railed against them and others like them in the NC Senate. Then she showed up at the Dell groundbreaking last month and tried to act like nothing had happened. Classic Virginia Foxx.
I'm glad Virginia voted this way and I'm glad she has behaved herself beautifully in Congress. Maybe positive reinforcement works. Keep in mind that she also knows Vernon Robinson is watching her like a hawk.
All that being said, if she continues to vote this way, I'll probably vote her way next fall.
Is someone documenting this woman's folly very carefully ... ?
Virginia Foxx : Real Leadership, True Representation
http://www.clemmonscourier.com/opinion.shtml
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