Congress could come up with some money for rebuilding communities hit by Hurricane Katrina by postponing the rollout of the new Medicare prescription drug benefit program.[@@]
Rep. Mike Pence, R-Ind., says the federal government needs to cut spending on what he calls “big ticket items” to offset the cost of rebuilding the Gulf Coast.
Congress “can’t allow a catastrophe of nature to become a catastrophe of debt for our children and grandchildren,” Pence said Sunday on a morning news show on ABC.