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patients and medical personnel from hospitals and nurs-
ing homes; 
Whereas the United States Armed Forces orchestrated one of 
the largest domestic rescue operations in history, with 
command centers at the Emergency Operations Center in 
Baton Rouge, Louisiana, the Louis Armstrong New Orle-
ans International Airport in New Orleans, Louisiana, the 
Naval Air Station in Pensacola, Florida, and Camp Shel-
by in Hattiesburg, Mississippi; 
Whereas the American Red Cross, Habitat for Humanity, 
Salvation Army, America’s Second Harvest (now known 
as Feeding America), Emergency Communities, Catholic 
Charities, PRC Compassion, Southern Baptist Disaster 
Relief, and other charitable organizations provided crucial 
food, water, and hygiene products to victims; 
Whereas countless first responders, such as police officers, 
emergency medical personnel, and firefighters, from 
across the United States worked around the clock to pro-
vide care for and to protect the safety of the residents 
of the affected communities; 
Whereas more than 70 countries and international organiza-
tions 
pledged 
monetary 
donations 
in 
excess 
of 
$854,000,000, including a pledge of $500,000,000 by the 
State of Kuwait, and $100,000,000 by the State of 
Qatar, which awarded 109 full tuition scholarships to 
Tulane University students affected by the storm and re-
stored 100 homes for low-income victims in the historic 
Treme´/Lafitte neighborhood of New Orleans; 
Whereas Louisiana’s Piggyback Program was created to sup-
port affordability for low-income residents in areas receiv-
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ing Gulf Opportunity Zone Low Income Housing Tax 
Credits; 
Whereas the greater New Orleans Small Business Develop-
ment Center helped more than 500 fishermen secure re-
covery funding through the Technical Assistance for 
Small Firms program; 
Whereas following the devastation of Hurricane Katrina, 
medical residents and faculty, as well as grassroots orga-
nizations quickly mobilized to provide immediate health 
services and have since developed as a group of 25 orga-
nizations with over 90 sites and this group has built a 
unique, high quality, efficient, community-based primary 
care network for the greater New Orleans area and now 
serve as the primary source of health care for approxi-
mately 290,000 people; 
Whereas 
the 
Healthcare 
Recovery 
Training 
System 
(HeaRTS) at the Southwest Louisiana Area Health Edu-
cation Center provided health care training to more than 
2,300 people, including 500 participants in the program 
who were displaced by the storm; 
Whereas the Jefferson Parish Chamber of Commerce and 
nonprofit Cafe´ Reconcile in New Orleans offered culinary 
arts training for at-risk youth; 
Whereas the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administra-
tion improved its storm tracking guidance by adding 8 
Caribbean observation buoys and expanding its satellite 
communication system network to include 25 coastal 
Weather Forecast Offices; 
Whereas in 2005, Congress directed the United States Army 
Corps of Engineers to deliver a plan to Congress for pro-
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viding coastal Louisiana with Category 5-equivalent hur-
ricane protection; 
Whereas the United States Army Corps of Engineers has not 
yet provided Congress with a concrete set of rec-
ommendations to achieve this level of protection; 
Whereas Louisiana loses approximately 25 square miles of 
coastal land each year and coastal restoration efforts 
along the Louisiana coast and barrier protection at the 
mouth of Lake Pontchartrain to protect against storm 
surge are necessary components of achieving Category 5- 
equivalent hurricane protection for South Louisiana; 
Whereas the United States Army Corps of Engineers has 
been constructing stronger levees by replacing failed I- 
Wall design floodwalls with stronger T-wall or L-wall de-
sign floodwalls and reinforcing the most vulnerable 
undamaged I-Walls and surge protection closures; 
Whereas these improved levees are an essential aspect of pro-
viding Category 5-equivalent hurricane protection; 
Whereas the convention and visitors bureaus across the Gulf 
Coast attempt to restore tourism, particularly the New 
Orleans Metropolitan Convention and Visitors Bureau, 
which won the bid to host the Super Bowl XLVII in 
2013; 
Whereas colleges and universities in the hurricane-ravished 
communities continue to struggle due to low enrollment 
and have been forced to restructure and reduce their pro-
grams; and 
Whereas social, economic, and mental health effects are com-
pounded due to trauma suffered from the BP Deepwater 
Horizon Oil Spill and Hurricane Katrina: Now, therefore, 
be it 
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Resolved, That the House of Representatives— 
(1) expresses its support to the victims of Hur-
ricane Katrina; 
(2) commends the courageous efforts of those 
who assisted in the recovery progress; 
(3) recognizes the contributions of the commu-
nities in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Flor-
ida to the United States; and 
(4) reaffirms its commitment to rebuild, renew, 
and restore the Gulf Coast region. 
Æ 
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