U.S. Congressmen Visit Tsunami-Hit Region
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A delegation of seven U.S. congressmen, including Rep. Wayne Gilchrest of Maryland, visited Indonesia's tsunami-hit Aceh province Saturday, meeting injured survivors in a field hospital and getting a firsthand look at the devastation.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - The United States stepped  up its diplomatic and relief effort in tsunami countries,  sending Secretary of State Colin Powell to the hardest-hit  region and promising more helicopters and field hospitals would  follow.
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The 109th U.S. Congress convened on  Tuesday with aid for victims of the Asian tsunami the emergency  top priority -- ahead of thorny domestic issues such as the  Social Security retirement program and taxes.
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On the final leg of a short trip through South Asia, Deputy Defense Secretary Paul D. Wolfowitz visited U.S. Marines here Monday and witnessed firsthand how quickly Sri Lanka has been able to regain its footing after the tsunami.
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A 7.9-magnitude earthquake struck near southern Indonesia today, the U.S. Geological Survey said. Ken Navidad at the USGS said the tsunami centers in the Pacific and Alaska initially said two quakes, but he did not know why. He said his agency has measured only one.
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The 109th Congress convened on  Tuesday for the first time, with more aid for victims of the  South Asia tsunami the surprise top priority, ahead of such  domestic issues as taxes, health care and judicial nominees.
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President Bush is expected to ask Congress next month for roughly &#36;1 billion for continued U.S. aid for victims of the calamitous Indian Ocean tsunami, lawmakers said Wednesday.
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Secretary of State Colin Powell and Florida Governor Jeb Bush will travel to the areas of Asia and Africa most affected by the tsunamis to survey the damage, White House spokesman Trent Duffy said.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - U.S. helicopters shuttled  the injured and the homeless, many of them children, out of  some of the worst-hit parts of tsunami-devastated Aceh province  on Monday, as reports surfaced of trafficking in orphans from  the disaster.
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Prime ministers of Norway, Sweden and Finland go to Thailand to see the devastating aftermath of the tsunami.
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The United States is moving on several fronts toward a global tsunami warning system following the Asian catastrophe.
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U.S. presidents past and present appealed to Americans on Monday to help victims of the Asian tsunami as one of the biggest aid efforts in history struggled to bring food and water to millions of desperate survivors.
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Military helicopters ferried disaster supplies into South Asia on Saturday as a U.S. delegation prepared for its trip to the region to get a close-up look at the devastation and determine what more this country can do to help.
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Aid workers reaching remote areas of Indonesia's Aceh province discover the extent of the tsunami's devastation.
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CRAWFORD, Texas  - President Bush will send a  delegation headed by Secretary of State Colin Powell and the  president's brother, Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, to the  tsunami-affected region on Sunday to assess the need for  assistance, the White House said.
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PADANG, Indonesia - The ground shook so hard that Yulinar had to grab a table to steady herself. Minutes later, she heard a warning crackling over the speakers of the neighborhood mosque - a tsunami could crash into her fishing village on Indonesia's Sumatra island at any minute.
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Congress will consider a &#36;30 million network of buoys, wave gauges and seismic sensors to warn of tsunamis globally, a plan that would build on U.S. and international efforts to avert another catastrophe.