President Asks for &#36;2B in Hurricane Aid
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President Bush will head to Florida on Wednesday to survey hurricane damage and the president is asking Congress to approve &#36;2 billion for "urgent needs" stemming from hurricanes Charley and Frances.
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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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New York, Sept. 22 (NNN): Haiti&#39;s president Boniface Alexandre on Tuesday appealed for aid to help the island nation in the aftermath of tropical storm Jeanne whose floods that have claimed nearly 700 lives and left another 1000 missing.
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Officials in the Philippines have called for international aid to help more than half a million people hit by devastating back-to-back storms.
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Louisiana's grant program for rebuilding hurricane-damaged homes is giving money to thousands who weren't supposed to be eligible, the White House's hurricane recovery czar testified Thursday.
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FORT PIERCE, Fla. - President Bush on Wednesday helped distribute bottled water, bags of ice, food and $2 billion in federal aid to hurricane-battered residents of this vital electoral state...
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CRAWFORD, Texas  - President Bush, under pressure  over the pace and scale of American aid to Asian tsunami  victims, abruptly raised the U.S. contribution to $350 million  on Friday, 10 times the amount pledged just two days ago.
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The interim president of Haiti, President Boniface Alexandre, yesterday appealed to world leaders for aid as the death toll from the country&#39;s second flooding disaster in four months reached more than 700.
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CRAWFORD, Texas  - President Bush, under pressure  over the pace and size of American aid to Asian tsunami  victims, dramatically raised U.S. assistance to the region on  Friday to $350 million from $35 million.
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The United States is preparing a new  tsunami disaster aid package for introduction in Congress early  next year, but a leading Democrat said on Thursday President  Bush has the authority to commit $300 million immediately to  the international relief effort.
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President Bush will head to Florida tomorrow to survey hurricane damage, and heâs urging Congress to approve two billion dollars for &quot;urgent needs&quot; stemming from hurricanes Charley and Frances.
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The House on Saturday unanimously approved &#36;14.5 billion for hurricane victims and struggling farmers as Congress moved a step closer to showering money on Florida and other pivotal states in the upcoming elections.
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UNITED NATIONS (CP) - Haiti and Grenada need $59 million US in humanitarian aid immediately to cope with the destruction wrought by hurricanes last month, the top UN relief official said Friday.
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President Bush planned to ask Congress Monday for about &#36;2.5 billion in additional aid to help Florida recover from its recent bout with hurricanes, congressional aides said.
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The United Nations on Friday asked wealthy nations to donate an extra &#36;59 million in aid to help about 400,000 people in Grenada and Haiti recover from a recent wave of storms and flooding.
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LAKE WALES, Fla. - President Bush, touring hurricane-battered Florida on his way to Thursday night's presidential debate, pressed Congress on Wednesday to approve his latest request for emergency federal aid for storm victims, this time for more than $7 billion...
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United States President George W Bush said on Wednesday the United States&#39; initial grant of $US35 million in the aftermath of the tsunami disaster in South East Asia was &quot;only the beginning of our help&quot; but he did not announce an immediate increase in aid