FEMA

WASHINGTON – United States Senator Mary L. Landrieu, D-La., sent a letter to President Obama today, urging the president to request from Congress an immediate $1.565 billion in emergency supplemental funding for the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) Disaster Recovery Fund (DRF).

WASHINGTON – The Chairman of the Homeland Security Subcommittee of the Senate Appropriations Committee, Senator Mary L. Landrieu, D-La., today called on the Obama Administration to request at least $1.56 billion of emergency funding for FY 2011 to cover a shortfall in the Disaster Relief Fund (DRF).

A Roman Catholic school in St. Bernard Parish plans to expand its campus with 4 million dollars in federal hurricane aid.

WASHINGTON— United States Senator Mary Landrieu, D-La, today urged FEMA to be fair in its effort to recoup money from people suspected of receiving improper federal disaster assistance payments following Hurricanes Katrina and Rita and other disasters.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A government audit says the Federal Emergency Management Agency hasn't tried to collect roughly $643 million in improper payments made to victims of Hurricane Katrina and other disasters.

NEW ORLEANS - The Federal Emergency Management Agency's Louisiana Recovery Office will donate furniture to the first of seven nonprofits, Calcasieu Unmet Needs Committee, on Monday, Jan. 3, 2010, at 8 a.m. at FEMA's Sherwood Staging facility in Baton Rouge.