Twenty years ago, one of the most destructive storms to hit the United States made landfall in Louisiana, and the impact and lessons learned from Hurricane Katrina were invoked by 23 past and current Pelican State officials, including retired Lt. Gen. Russel L. Honoré, the commander of Joint Task Force Katrina, in an Aug. 20 letter to Louisiana House Republicans, Speaker J. Michael Johnson and Majority Leader Stephen J. Scalise, the two most powerful men in the lower chamber:
As we approach the respective anniversaries of Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Ida on August 23 and August 29, respectively, we, the undersigned current and former officials and first responders from the great state of Louisiana, ask that you schedule the bipartisan AM Radio for Every Vehicle Act for a vote in the United States House of Representatives, and push for its enactment before the end of the year.
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