Bush touts federal response to wildfires
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President Bush touted his administration's response to the California wildfires on Saturday. "I made a pledge to the people of California on behalf of all Americans: We will help you put out the fires, get through the crisis, and rebuild your lives," he said in his weekly radio address.
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Wildfires across the country have burned a record number of acres this year, and with the scorched land comes a record bill, a federal official said Tuesday.
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Highlights of the Bush administration's response Wednesday to the earthquake-tsunami catastrophe in Asia:
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POPLAR BLUFF, Mo.  - The White House asked  Congress on Monday to approve $2 billion in emergency funding  for hurricane-battered Florida and said President Bush would  visit the election battleground state on Wednesday.
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President Bush spent part of Monday at his Texas ranch monitoring devastation from a deadly earthquake in Southeast Asia &#151; a replay of his post-Christmas vacation last year when he was monitoring damage from an earthquake in Iran.
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US President George W Bush touches down after an air tour over the area hit by the California wildfires.
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President Bush got a look at damage from Hurricane Frances on Wednesday and doled out food and water to Florida residents in his fourth visit in a month to a state vital to his re-election hopes.
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President Bush declared part of northern Nevada a national disaster area Tuesday, making federal relief available to hundreds of people whose homes were swamped by a weekend levee rupture.
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President Bush expressed his "sincere condolences" Sunday to the victims of the massive earthquake and tidal waves that hit southern and southeast Asia. Officials said U.S. relief efforts already were underway.
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The Bush administration's new federal disaster-response plan drew harsh criticism yesterday from state and local officials only a day after it was unveiled, prompting fresh calls by House Democrats to make the Federal Emergency Management Agency a stand-alone Cabinet-level agency.
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President Bush on Thursday ordered Cabinet agencies to pay more attention to private landowners, states and local governments on how to manage the environment.
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US President George W. Bush on Wednesday will visit disaster-relief efforts in Florida as he makes his way to the first debate of the 2004 White House race, his spokesman said.
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President Bush signed disaster declarations Thursday to speed federal assistance to hurricane-battered states and is considering a visit to the region, his spokesman said.
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President Bush offered condolences to victims of violent storms and tornadoes that roared through several Southern states and said he would visit stricken areas on Saturday "with a heavy heart."
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US President George W Bush prepares to fly over the area devastated by the California wildfires.
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President Bush demanded yesterday congressional action on legislation to rein in class-action, asbestos and medical-malpractice lawsuits, telling a White House economic conference that he would make changing the civil tort system a &quot;priority issue.
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Federal land management agencies are being asked to make more employees available to fight wildfires because crews and equipment have been stretched to the limit by nearly 60 major blazes around the West.