WASHINGTON (CNN) -- House and Senate Republican leaders have agreed in principle to hold joint hearings into the response by federal, state and local officials to Hurricane Katrina, a House Republican aide said Wednesday.
House Speaker Dennis Hastert, R-Illinois, and Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tennessee, will announce the hearings at a Capitol news conference, Hastert's office said.
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It's uncertain when the joint hearings would begin, but GOP leaders have said repeatedly they don't want to pull officials out of the disaster area to testify.
The GOP aide said the hearings are expected to be bipartisan, but a high-ranking House Democratic aide said lawmakers from his party had not been contacted yet.
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Could they be buckling under pressure?
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