McCain False On Katrina Investigations

KATRINA: "I have supported every investigation and ways to find out what caused the tragedy."

McCain Voted Twice Against Establishing A Commission To Study The Response To Hurricane Katrina. McCain voted against amendments establishing a Congressional commission to examine Federal, State, and local response to devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina in U.S. Gulf Region, especially in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and other areas impacted in the aftermath; and makes immediate corrective measures to improve future responses. [2006 Senate Vote #6, 2/2/2006; 2005 Senate Vote #229, 9/14/2005]

McCain Voted Against Appropriating $109 Billion In Supplemental Emergency Funding, Including $28 Billion for Hurricane Relief. McCain voted against passage of the Emergency Supplemental Appropriations of 2006. Passage of the emergency supplemental bill would appropriate roughly $109 billion in emergency supplemental funding for fiscal 2006. It would provide $72.4 billion in fiscal 2006 funds for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and foreign aid, not counting an almost 3 percent across-the-board cut to defense funds in the bill. It would provide more than $28 billion for hurricane relief, approximately $2.3 billion for pandemic flu preparations and $1.9 billion for border security efforts. [2006 Senate Vote #112, 5/4/2006]

McCain Voted Against Granting Access To Medicaid For Hurricane Katrina Victims For Up To Five Months. McCain voted against an amendment to provide emergency health care and other relief for survivors of Hurricane Katrina. The amendment would grant access to Medicaid to Hurricane Katrina victims for up to five months; it also provided full federal funding for Medicaid in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama for up to one year; provide $800 million to compensate providers caring for Katrina evacuees; it temporarily suspended the Medicare Part B late enrollment penalty; and permit states hit by or serving evacuees to access the TANF Contingency Fund. It would be offset with funds unspent by the FEMA. [2005 Senate Vote #285, 11/3/2005]

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[WindHarps]

I am sure he fully supported the Bush Administration's "climate" in rebuilding New Orleans, which is based on freezing out unions and exploiting slave labor (from overseas).

[ETericET]

" I was agaist a bill that was loaded with pork barrel projects that didn't include my state"

[mike45014]

As people drowned and died during katrina this asshole was on air force one having cake for his birthday with Bush check it our for yourselves.

[dantheman191919]

im australian and i say the 'free' world does not need another conservative douche taking us no where!

[UTBESUX]

Thank you for showing the facts. THIS is a very important issue & it could happen to anyone watching. McCain lied again, when Katrina touched down he was celebrating his B.D with Bush. That is where the famous pic of he & Bush with the cake came from. McCain is a rich man, who is so out of touch & uncaring that it is scary to think we'd have another one of these idiots tunning America....into the ground!