Congress Approves $51.8 Billion Relief Package
9th Sep 2005, 05:36 GMT
A $51.8 billion Katrina relief package won quick approval from Congress even as lawmakers moved toward making billions of dollars more available for welfare and flood-insurance payments to families displaced by the storm.
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