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BY J. GOLDFLUTE
HECTOR Y PEDRO
Adrian
Republicans
debate cuttinj
disaster relief
WASHINGTON (AP) —
Republicans are divided over
their plan to cut $389 million
from the government’s chief dis
aster response agency, even as
Tropical Storm Allison finished
tearing a path from Texas to
New England.
Republicans included the
Federal Emergency Manage
ment Agency cut in a measure
providing $6.5 billion for the
rest of fiscal 2001 for defense,
education and other programs
that the I louse Appropriations
Committee approved last week.
The full I louse plans to debate
the measure Wednesday.
But with the 1 louston area
alone reeling from an estimated
$2.1 billion in damage, one local
congressman — who happens to
be Majority Whip Tom DeLay,
R-Texas — is against the FEMA
reduction, spokeswoman Emily
Miller said Monday.
In addition, WTiite House
budget chief Mitchell Daniels
and FEMA Director Joe All-
baugh have written letters
questioning the reduction. .And
other lawmakers from stricken
states say they want to put dis
aster funds into the spending
bill as it makes its way through
Congress.
Asked if DeLay might also
seek disaster aid for his commu
nity, Miller said, “When he
knows the needs, he’ll do the re
sponsible thing.”
The episode demonstrates
the cross-currents Republicans
face as they try balancing the re
sponse to a destructive stod
with their — and PresiG:
Bush’s — desire to limit fedej
spending.
GOP leaders say they art
tennined to hold the bill’sp;
tag to $6.5 billion. Erasing;:
proposed FFMA cuts wot
force them to choose among,
ther increasing the mease:
cost, finding other reductit
elsewhere or removing so;
spending from the measure.
Republicans on the app:
priations panel said the red.
tion was justified beai
FFMA had more thanSli
lion in reserve left this ye,
The GOP-written spend; !
bill instead includes S389n
lion for flood control pro;
repairs to federal facilitii
other types of assistance,
of which is aimed at indi
lawmakers’ districts.
“We think given what
know now they have suffii
money to get through the
said Rep. James Walsh, R-N
a senior member of the Ap:
priations Committee. Fi
2001 runs through Sept. 30 i
At the panel’s meeting
week. Democrats tried to
store most of the FEMA mo:
losing 32-29 on an ameneb
that also would have boo;
spending for emergency hea:
and cooling aid for the poor
“This (the FEMAreducte
is something that isn’t going
stick,” said the committee’s;
Democrat, Rep. David Obe
Wisconsin.
Housing
Continued from Page 7
“Tt generally takes an off-campus fa
cility three years to settle down,“
Thomas said. “Plus/Traditions and the
Callaway House are not cheap, which
causes the price of housing to become
a factor.”
Within the 8,300 residence hall
spaces available, the Department of
Residence Life has decided to diversi
fy on-campus living options and tailor
to customers needs.
“We are currently experimenting with
different types of halls,” Thomas said.
“We are working on converting more
rooms into private rooms.”
Thomas said that the demand of pri
vate rooms is on the rise, and they will
begin converting some of the balcony-
style rooms in Hughes and Keathley of
the FHK complex during Spring 2002
to private rooms.
He said that the balcony dorms are
perfect for converting to a private room
because of their size. He also said that
the Department of Residence Life has
converted some of the modular rooms
into apartments.
GARZA
Continued from Page 7
sentences. Attorney General John
Ashcroft ordered further study but
also said in a statement Monday that
there was no evidence of racial bias in
Garza’s death sentence and no reason
to delay his execution any further.
“Juan Raul Garza’s guilt is not in
doubt,” Ashcroft said.
Garza was convicted of murdering
a man by shooting him five times in
the head and neck.
Ashcroft said Garza also ordered
the murders of two other men, paying
the killers $10,000 each for one of the
slayings and money and a car for the
other.
“The facts of Garza’s case are im
portant,” Ashcroft said.
“Seven of Garza’s eight victims
were Hispanic; the prosecutor in the
case is Hispanic; the presiding judge
is Hispanic; at least six of the jurors are
Hispanic; and all of the jurors indi
vidually certified that race, color, reli
gious beliefs, national origin and sex
were not involved in reaching their re
spective decisions.”
The original Justice Depaiti
study showed that 80 percentol
fendants charged with capital
fenses over a five-year period*;
minorities.
The study also found that just®
of the 94 U.S. attorney districts
counted for about 43 percent oi||
cases in which prosecutors sought;
death penalty.
Garza’s attorneys cited 26 cases:'
volving crimes similar to Gaffi
where prosecutors did not seek:
federal death penalty.
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