To establish a congressional commission to examine the Federal, State, and local response to the devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina in the Gulf Region of the United States especially in the States of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and other areas impacted in the aftermath and make immediate corrective measures to improve such responses in the future.

Summary

Cosponsors 190

Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Sep 14, 2005 to Oct 18, 2005, with 157 there on the day it was introduced.

Actions 4

Everything that happened, newest first.

Related bills 4

Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.

Subjects

Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Emergency Management.

• Alabama
• Congress
• Congressional investigations
• Congressional oversight
• Congressional reorganization
• Congressional reporting requirements
• Crime and Law Enforcement
• Department of Homeland Security
• Disaster relief
• Economics and Public Finance
• Emergency communication systems
• Emergency Management
• Federal budgets
• Federal Emergency Management Agency
• Federal-local relations
• Federal-state relations
• Floods
• Government Operations and Politics
• Hurricane aftermath legislation
• Hurricanes
• Louisiana
• Mississippi
• Planning
• Science, Technology, Communications
• Water Resources Development

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1. Sep 14, 2005Introduced in House