Barack Obama's Record on Hurricane Katrina.

[illinoisprogressive]

think on these things posted this about Obama's katrina record. It is quite impressive.

http://thinkonthesethings.wordpress.com/2007/08/29/when-the-cameras-are-off-barack-obamas-hurricane-katrina-record/


It is nice that everyone is giving speeches and putting out ten-point plans to commemorate Hurricane Katrina. However, I’m more interested in knowing what people have been doing when the cameras were off. What is your record on this issue?

Here is Barack Obama’s record on rebuilding after Hurricane Katrina.

* Sept. 2, 2005: Obama holds press conference urging Illinoisans to contribute to the Hurricane Katrina relief efforts.
* Sept. 5, 2005: Obama visits Houston to visit evacuees with Presidents Clinton and Bush.
* Sept. 7, 2005: Obama introduces bill to create a national emergency family locator system
* Sept. 8, 2005: Obama introduces bill to create a National Emergency Volunteers Corps.
* Sept. 8, 2005: Obama co-sponsors the Katrina Emergency Relief Act of 2005 introduced by Senator Harry Reid
* Sept. 8, 2005: Obama co-sponsors the Hurricane Katrina Bankruptcy Relief and Community Protection Act of 2005 introduced by Senator Russ Feingold
* Sept. 12, 2005: Obama introduces legislation requiring states to create an emergency evacuation plan for society’s most vulnerable
* Sept. 15, 2005: Obama issues public response to President Bush’s speech about Gulf Coast rebuilding.
* Sept. 2, 2005: Obama co-sponsors bill to establish a Katrina commission to investigate response to the disaster introduced by Hillary Clinton
* Sept. 22, 2005: Obama and Coburn’s Hurricane Katrina financial oversight bill unanimously passes Senate committee.
* Sept. 22, 2005: Obama’s amendment requiring evacuation plans unanimously passes Senate committee.
* Sept. 28, 2005: Obama and Coburn issue statement about the need for a Chief Financial Officer to oversee the financial mismanagement and suspicious contracts occurring in the reconstruction process
* Sept. 29, 2005: Obama and Coburn investigate possible FEMA refusal of free cruise ship offer
* Oct. 6, 2005: Obama and Coburn issue statement on FEMA Decision to re-bid Katrina contracts
* Oct. 6, 2005: Obama co-sponsors Gulf Coast Infrastructure Redevelopment and Recovery Act of 2005.
* Oct. 21, 2005: Obama releases statement decrying the extension of FEMA director, Michael “Brownie” Brown’s contract. Obama calls Brown’s contract extension, “unconscionable.”
* Nov. 17, 2005: Obama and Coburn introduce legislation asking FEMA to immediately re-bid all Katrina reconstruction contracts.
* Feb. 1, 2006: Obama gives Senate floor speech on his legislation to help children affected by Hurricane Katrina
* Feb. 2, 2006: Obama introduces legislation to help low-income children affected by Hurricane Katrina
* Feb. 23, 2006: Obama issues statement responding to a White House report on Hurricane Katrina. Obama noted that the top two recommendations that the report had for the federal government were initiatives he had been working on since immediately after the storm hit. Obama called the administration’s response “delinquent.”
* May 2, 2006: Obama gives speech about no-bid contracts in Hurricane Katrina reconstruction
* May 4, 2006: Obama’s legislation to end no-bid contracts for Hurricane Katrina reconstruction passed the Senate.
* June 15, 2006: Obama and Coburn announce legislation to require amendment to create competitive bidding for Hurricane Katrina reconstruction for federal contracts over $500,000. Although it passed previously, the language was stripped in conference.
* June 15, 2006: Obama releases podcast about his pending Katrina reconstruction legislation in the Senate.
* June 16, 2006: Obama and Coburn get no-bid Hurricane Katrina reconstruction amendment into Department of Defense authorization bill.
* July 14, 2006: Obama and Coburn’s legislation to end abuse of no-bid contracts passes senate as amendment to Department of Defense authorization bill.
* August 11, 2006: Obama visits Xavier University in New Orleans to give Commencement address
* August 14, 2006: Obama and Coburn ask FEMA to address ballooning no-bid contracts for Gulf Coast reconstruction
* Sept. 29, 2006: Obama and Coburn legislation to prevent abuse of no-bid contracts in the wake of disaster passes Senate to be sent to President’s desk to become law.
* Feb. 2007-Present: As Obama begins his Presidential campaign he references Katrina as a part of his stump speech as he travels around the country in his familiar line, “That we are not a country which preaches compassion and justice to others while we allow bodies to float down the streets of a major American city. That is not who we are.”
* June 20, 2007: Obama co-sponsors Gulf Coast Housing Recovery Act of 2007 introduced by Senator Chris Dodd.
* July 27, 2007: Obama and colleagues get a measure in the Homeland Security bill that will investigate FEMA trailers that may contain the toxic chemical, formaldehyde.
* Aug. 26, 2007: Obama outlines a detailed Hurricane Katrina recovery plan.

[AtomicKitten]

1. I hope Obama makes this his signature issue.

It is so important.

[saltpoint]

2. Looks to me downright noble and true. As opposed to a certain sitting

president I could name.

Thank you, Senator Obama.

[Colobo]

3. Obama shows leadership and compassion once again.

[illinoisprogressive]

5. And it frustrates me that the media so disregards things like this in favor

of the superficial gushing over Billary and made up fights by the msm that the candidates are supposed to be having.
What the hell is wrong with them.
We are electing a president and they feel it's okay to push someone whose record is squat and her self promotion is all they are impressed with and yet, never talk about such things as this.

[Colobo]

6. The media is fascinated with the idea of Clinton/Obama vs. either Rudy or Thompson

They want Obama to lose the primary and become Hillary's VP.

[Colobo]

4. Kicking for the haters.

[flpoljunkie]

7. An impressive list. Thanks for posting it. Barack Obama is a leader.

[plusfiftyfive]

8. And this list just SHOWS it!!

Yes, thanks!

Obama, he's a leader, no way around it!

Hillary, she's out speaking, but not DOING!

[jenmito]

9. 5th Recommendation! Good for him!

I'm sure his numbers will increase as time goes on and voters realize all he's done/is doing. :hi:

[tkmorris]

10. Obama's not my top pick, but........

You have to admit, that is an impressive list. Thanks for posting it.

[illinoisprogressive]

11. It was surprising to me as I never saw anything about his Katrina record.

[Major Hogwash]

12. Actions speak louder than words.

This is what I was looking for when I was looking for someone to be the next President of the United States.

This is pure gold.

[uppityperson]

13. kick and wish I could rec.

[Imagevision]

14. Obama does represent a new change for the US. instead of going back to the ole BS. style of

leadership, that's just more of the same ole - same ole baloney, 2008, it's time to change not go back where we once were before the traitor was placed into the white house.

[BeyondGeography]

15. Great post, IP

also shows how that evil Coburn isn't always aligned with the devil. :sarcasm: