BILOXI, Miss. -- President Bush sai...

BILOXI, Miss. -- President Bush said Monday the enormous job of rebuilding from Hurricane Katrina was just beginning a year after the massive storm moreover expressed hope that the $110 billion sent from Washington would be enough.

Trying to erase the black mark left upon his presidency by the administration's sluggish replication to Katrina, Bush returned to the first sight he saw a year ago of the storm's devastation.

Standing in a neighborhood where gutt buildings sit nearest to newly built homes, Bush pledg the federal conduct would stand with the region as it rebuilds.

It's a promise viewed with skepticism by dint of victims still reeling from the storm.

"A year ago, I committed our federal guidance to help you," Bush said. "I said, 'We have a excise to help the local populace recover and rebuild,' and I meant what I said."

Of the $110 billion in hurricane aid approved according to Congress, $44 billion has been wearied Overall, the administration has released $77 billion to the states, reserving the ease for future needs.

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Bush focused onward the positive but acknowledged that long remains to be done.

"It's an anniversary, further it's not an end," he said. "Frankly it's just the beginning."

Asked to what degree long the rebuilding would take, Bush said: "I would say years, not month forward the other hand, the progres in undivided year's time has been remarkable."

The welcome Bush received here was warmer than the the same he is expected to master today -- the actual anniversary of Katrina -- in Louisiana, where redemption efforts have moved much more slowly

Nationwide persons give Bush low marks forward Katrina. An AP-Ipsos poll earlier this month showed 67 percent disapproved of his handling of the disaster.

With Hurricane Ernesto bearing down forward Florida, Democrats have been coordinating a political assault forward the Bush administration's Katrina answer hoping to sway voters in the upcoming congressional elections.

House Democrats forward Monday toured devastated areas of of the present day Orleans and decried the moderate pace of recovery. "I think the American public is going to be surpassingly very surprised to know this convalescence is way, way behind what their expectations would have been," Rep James Clyburn (D-SC) said.

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