<![CDATA[Jindal's Volcano Monitoring Criticism Comes Back To Bite Him Again]]>

1.0 link 186753 <![CDATA[Jindal's Volcano Monitoring Criticism Comes Back To Bite Him Again]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/04/14/jindals-volcano-monitorin_n_186753.html Gov. Bobby Jindal's much-maligned critique of stimulus money being put on volcano monitoring has once again placed him in an awkward spot.

On Monday, Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-LA, announced that half-a-million dollars in economic recovery funds would be sent to Louisiana for the purposes of upgrading flood-monitoring technology. The cash, which will also help the state improve streamgages and facility maintenance, comes from the same $140 million in Interior Department appropriations that Jindal once criticized.

During his response to President Obama's...

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