FDIC Chair to Supervise Gulf Coast Recovery Efforts

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From Associated Press

WASHINGTON — The chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. was assigned by the Bush administration Tuesday to oversee the federal government's disaster recovery efforts on the Gulf Coast.

Donald Powell, 64, a wealthy contributor to President Bush's presidential campaign, will be in charge of coordinating long-term plans to rebuild the states hit by hurricanes Katrina and Rita in late summer. The sluggish federal response to Katrina, the first and most damaging of the two, has been widely criticized.

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