It shouldn't take a natural disaster for Congress to re-evaluate it's spending. Our district has needed these projects. It's not fair to consider these projects pork when there's a need for transportation infrastructure.

I need to evaluate where we are. Tomorrow I will take a look at capital projects. Most importantly I will be looking at those types of things that student-athletes need to use immediately. Those types of things I will attack as soon as I get time tomorrow.

In this regard, auditors will evaluate the consumption of resources and results of projects and put forward suggestions and proposals for the government to deal with problems found during the auditing.

When there's a disaster, there must be a backlash in fashion. But the figures aren't in yet, so we don't know.

One way to evaluate your own reputation is to think about what would be said of you at your eulogy.

The president has such mastery of all of the tools of disaster relief. It's a military effort, Congress appropriates whatever you want, he controls the executive branch, and this is something where Bush can just go ahead and do his thing and all the Democrats can do is sigh.