Bush aides said the appropriation request would be only a small fraction of the cost of recovery and reconstruction to deal with the hurricane, which cut a swath of damage across Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama. The 10.5 billion is, indeed, a stopgap measure, ... We do not have a good sense . . . of how much the recovery from this disaster is likely, ultimately, to cost.
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