The Senate is locate to vote on a $26 billion hurricane relief package later this month if it be not that Gov.

The Senate is locate to vote on a $26 billion hurricane relief package later this month if it be not that Gov. Haley Barbour has already made the rotunds in Washington to push for solution Mississippi projects in closed-door meetings with senators in charge of exigency spending.

His visit last month was the most numerous recent in a slew of post-Katrina trips for the one-time chairman of the Republican National Committee.

long in the Senate bill apply the minds like what Barbour has been pushing for months: a $600 million pilot program for 20000 "Katrina cottages" along the large bay Coast and a $700 million plan to relocate the CSX rail line further inland.

Getting federal currency directed toward specific projects could be a challenge for many state officials. if it be not that the close relationship between Barbour and the state's Washington contingent, including Senate Appropriations Chairman Thad Cochran, R-Miss., has helped several Mississippi brews gain national ...