H. Res. 948
In the House of Representatives, U. S., 
September 26, 2006.
Whereas, during Hurricane Katrina, some 3,700 persons (in-
cluding employees, their immediate and extended fami-
lies, and members of the general public), sought shelter 
at the Stennis Space Center; 
Whereas the Stennis cafeteria, which normally serves about 
175 breakfasts and 600 lunches each day, served 3,000 
meals 3 times a day to evacuees, for a period of a week 
following the storm; 
Whereas before, during, and in the immediate aftermath of 
the storm, the small staff of the Stennis Medical Clinic 
provided medical care to all who needed it among the 
evacuees onsite, including some 20 special needs patients, 
and soon after the storm, the Stennis clinic staff was 
complemented by medical personnel airlifted from other 
National Aeronautics and Space Administration Centers; 
Whereas, although commercial electrical power was not avail-
able to Stennis for 10 days following the storm, electrical 
power was maintained to all essential buildings through 
the extensive use of diesel-powered generators and the 
around the clock efforts of a team of individuals who me-
chanically maintained those generators and kept them 
fueled, also enabling the pumps on Stennis’ deep-water 
wells to provide a continuous supply of potable water for
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drinking, cooking, and sanitation to support the 3,700 
people onsite; 
Whereas a team of employees in the Stennis rocket propul-
sion test complex protected the health of all test infra-
structure, employing innovative methods to ensure an un-
interrupted supply of purge gases to all required facility 
infrastructure and test hardware, failure of which would 
have resulted in untold millions of dollars of new costs 
to clean, purge, and recertify these facilities for Space 
Shuttle Main Engine and other propulsion system test-
ing; 
Whereas for 10 days following the storm, logistical support 
(including food, water, medical supplies, and personnel 
exchange) of the National Aeronautics and Space Admin-
istration Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans was 
provided via helicopters operating from the Stennis Space 
Center, along with helicopters, and flight crew and secu-
rity personnel, from the Marshall Space Flight and Ken-
nedy Space Centers; and 
Whereas, immediately following the storm, Stennis Space 
Center facilitated the use of its property as the site of 
the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s Incident 
Command Center serving a 6-county area along the Mis-
sissippi Gulf Coast, and Stennis served as the central dis-
tribution hub for disaster response supplies to those same 
counties, including, during the nearly 2-months of Fed-
eral Emergency Management Agency relief operations at 
Stennis, distributing more than 7,600,000 gallons of 
water, 41,000,000 pounds of ice, and 3,500,000 MREs 
(meals-ready-to-eat) to devastated areas via the Stennis 
Space Center hub: Now, therefore, be it
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Resolved, That the House of Representatives commends 
the dedication of the employees who stayed behind at the Na-
tional Aeronautics and Space Administration’s Stennis Space 
Center, who, during and after Hurricane Katrina’s assault on 
Mississippi, provided shelter and medical care to storm evac-
uees and logistical support for storm recovery efforts, while 
effectively maintaining critical facilities at the Center, includ-
ing Cheryl Bennett, James Bevis, Terry Bordelon, Steve 
Brettel, Vicki Brown, Bill Brumfield, Kirt Bush, Paul Byrd, 
Ethan Calder, Marla Carpenter, David Carstens, Jonathan 
Clemens, Eric Crawford, Cheri Cuevas, John Davenport, 
David Del Santo, Isaac DeLancey, Jim Freeman, Greg Gar-
rett, Dave Geiger, Stan Gill, Don Griffith, Haynes 
Haselmaier, Coby Holloway, Gay Irby, Manning ‘‘JJ’’ Jones, 
Catriona Ladner, David Ladner, Richard Ladner, Stanley 
Lee, Michelle Logan, Ron Magee, Sharlene Majors, Steve 
McCord, 
Pat 
McCullough, 
Michael 
McDaniel, 
Mike 
McKinion, Kirk Miller, John Mitchell, Ron Moore, David R. 
Oakes, Kevin A. Oliver, Alan Phillips, John Nick Pitalo, 
Allen Price, Porter Pryor, Margaret Roberts, Miguel 
Rodriguez, Jason Saucier, Dale Sewell, Donald Seymore, 
Kathy Slade, Sue Smith, David Throckmorton, Karen
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Vander, John Waquespack, Rodney Wilkinson, Robert Wil-
liams, and Michael J. Witt. 
Attest:
Clerk.