The Bush administration’s approach to post-Katrina reconstruction has been slow, ineffective, and partly influenced by major conservative opposition to aid spending. This according to the Los Angeles Times. Of the three major proposals outlined in President Bush’s prime-time speech from New Orleans in September, only one has been put before Congress. The lone proposal to reach the floor — $5,000 dollar accounts for unemployed workers–would only provide aid for fewer than a quarter of those left jobless by the disaster, the paper says. The slow pace is drawing the ire of even some Congressional Republicans. Republican Senator Judd Gregg said the Bush administration’s approach risks: “confusion, inefficiency and huge bureaucratic frustration.” Gregg co-sponsored a bill along with Democratic Senator Edward Kennedy for the creation of a cabinet-level Gulf Coast-recovery agency. The White House rejected the proposal.