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Pelosi Statement on Partisan Select Committee on Katrina Response

Date: Sept. 21, 2005
Location: Washington DC
Issues: National Security


Pelosi Statement on Partisan Select Committee on Katrina Response

Wednesday, September 21, 2005

Washington, D.C. - House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi released the following statement today in response to Speaker Hastert's selection of Republican Members to serve on the select committee to review the relief response to Hurricane Katrina:

"The Speaker is not listening to the American people; they have unequivocally said they want an independent commission to find out the truth. They do not want a partisan whitewash of what went wrong in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

"I will not appoint any Democrats to participate in this sham. Instead, Democrats have proposed an independent commission, based on the rigorous and effective example of the bipartisan 9/11 Commission.

"I ask the Republican Leadership to join me in supporting an independent commission to determine what really went wrong in the federal response to Hurricane Katrina. The American people expect and deserve nothing less."

http://www.house.gov/pelosi/press/releases/Sept05/partisan.html

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