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GOP criticism of disaster-spending bills is fueled by reports that the legislation becomes a magnet for projects that are not directly related to the disaster. Todd Witherington searches his trailer that was overturned by the effects of Hurricane Harvey om Monday in Aransas Pass, Texas. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
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Exploiting Hurricane Harvey: Fiscal hawks fear big spenders will capitalize on Harvey relief bill

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An oil refinery's lights illuminate rainfall as Hurricane Harvey makes landfall in Corpus Christi, Texas, on Friday. Exxon filed a report Tuesday with Texas environmental regulators saying its Baytown refining facility -- the second-largest in the country -- sustained damage after it became
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EPA investigating toxic leaks from Harvey-damaged Exxon refineries

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White House press secretary Sarah Sanders' hat was red with the words
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Sarah Sanders spotted with ‘Make America Texas’ hat

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Former president George W. Bush offered words of comfort to the people of Texas on Tuesday while visiting a Southern Methodist University football practice. (AP Photo/LM Otero)
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George W. Bush visits SMU football practice, offers supportive words to Houston after Hurricane Harvey

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President Trump joked during a briefing at an emergency operations center in Austin, Texas, that Harvey, the moniker given to the storm slamming the Gulf Coast, sounds like a pleasant name. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
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Trump: ‘Harvey sounds like such an innocent name … but it’s not’

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Cruz and Cornyn won't be guilty of hypocrisy until they try using Hurricane Harvey as political cover to sneak through non-emergency funding without proper oversight. (AP Photo/LM Otero, File)
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The media is totally misrepresenting where Ted Cruz and John Cornyn were on Hurricane Sandy funding

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We should not have laws against price-gouging, because such variability in price is part of the solution to disaster-induced shortages. (@kenklippenstein/Twitter)
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Texas AG uses social media to target price gougers in Harvey aftermath

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CNN on Tuesday was forced to cut short an interview with a victim of Hurricane Harvey after she ripped the reporter for interviewing her just after she was recently rescued from devastating flooding. (Gabe Hernandez/Corpus Christi Caller-Times via AP)
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Harvey victim trashes CNN during live interview: WATCH

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A University of Tampa professor tweeted his way to unemployment this week. As Hurricane Harvey ravaged southeast Texas on Sunday, University of Tampa Adjunct Sociology Professor Ken Storey, safe in central Florida, had a remarkably mean-spirited take on the tragedy. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)
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University fires professor who blamed Republican supporters in Texas for Hurricane Harvey, said Republicans elsewhere ‘deserve’ similar fate

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President Trump, flanked by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and first lady Melania Trump speaks during a briefing on Harvey relief efforts in Corpus Christi, Texas. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
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Trump wants Texas to set the standard for disaster relief: ‘This is the way to do it’

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