He said his most recent meeting with the State Department Reconstruction team produced nothing concrete.
Bobby Jindal is young, and Republican, and Indian-American, and the first non-white governor of the state since reconstruction.
Smith, a State Department reconstruction team leader in this area, says the United States has provided limited funds to refurbish some buildings.
Garner will need all his charm and resolve to referee the tug-of-war between the departments of Defense and State for influence over the reconstruction process.
"With the improvements State has made based on the findings and recommendations of all our oversight entities, we believe that State and USAID, along with other U.S. government agencies, can successfully deal with future stabilization and reconstruction efforts, " one State Department official said.
Problems in the oil sector have deprived the state of much-needed revenue for reconstruction.
Without the State Department's experience of post-war reconstruction, gathered in Bosnia and Afghanistan, Mr Rumsfeld veered all over the place.
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With surprising speed, technocrats at Iraq's state-owned national oil companies are taking charge of reconstruction.
Estes was reluctant to comment on Pentagon concerns about the slow pace of the civilian reconstruction program, referring the question to the State Department.
Thoughtless (or cynical) officials are saying they will cut development spending to pay for reconstruction, though other bits of the bloated state apparatus should be chopped first.
Leonard Lardaro, also of the University of Rhode Island, thinks the temporary clean-up jobs (3, 000 at Warwick Mall, for instance) and the remodelling and reconstruction needed in many Rhode Island homes may help the state out of the recession.
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The Gulf state of Qatar is hosting a two-day conference on development and reconstruction in Sudan's Darfur region.
Americans United for Separation of Church and State opposed the bill, saying taxpayers should not be asked to pay for reconstruction of houses of worship.
This week, the United States took its first step to address the problems with the arrival in Baghdad of Paul Bremer, a former head of counter-terrorism in the State Department, to replace General Jay Garner as head of the Office of Reconstruction and Humanitarian Assistance in Iraq.
But he has yet to actively intervene to make sure New Orleans gets state-of-the-art flood protection and robust and timely coastal wetland reconstruction.
In Massachusetts, former Clinton Justice Department official Deval Patrick became the state's first African-American governor and only the second elected nationally since Reconstruction.
O'HARA: Pentagon and State Department officials say that the United States engaged the Sunnis from the beginning through reconstruction projects, but they say it took much longer for the US to reach out politically.
U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has said the Georgia aid package is intended for humanitarian aid and reconstruction -- not to rebuild the Georgian armed forces that the Russians rolled over in early August.
Tom Timberman, who heads one of the reconstruction teams, is based 40 miles south of Baghdad, where the State Department has set up a sort of "mini Green Zone" a large, heavily fortified regional embassy that houses foreign service officers charged with overseeing development in the key regions of Babil, Najaf and Karbala.
The reductions will result from additional taxes to pay for 3.11 disaster recovery and reconstruction, abolition of the child-raising stipends, and increases in the state pension insurance premiums.
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Cotton's talk of bipartisanship fits his district -- he is the second Republican since Reconstruction to represent the Arkansas 4th, which covers nearly the southern half of the state and includes former President Bill Clinton's birthplace of Hope.
On 6 April, AFL-CIO President Lane Kirkland in a letter to Secretary of State James Baker expressed strong opposition to Soviet membership in and borrowing privileges with the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD).
As Secretary of State (1947-1949), he devised the Marshall Plan for Europe's post-war reconstruction.
In response to the devastation of Hurricane Sandy, the Federal, state, and local governments immediately started to work with outside partners to provide relief, support, and reconstruction.
Of course, the 2004 election will depend also on the state of the economy (see article) and the success or otherwise of Iraq's post-war reconstruction.
In an effort to repair the bruised nation, the Nigerian head of state General Yakubu Gowan spoke of "No Victor, No Vanquished" and also promoted a policy of Reconciliation, Reconstruction and Rehabilitation.
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