WASHINGTON (AP) - The former federal disaster chief hired by Louisiana to help lead its Hurricane Katrina recovery has registered to lobby for an insurance company that wants Congress to create a natural disaster "catastrophe fund." Former Federal Emergency Management Agency director James Lee Witt and his firm, James Lee Witt Associates, registered Tuesday to lobby for Allstate Insurance Co. Their mission: "to draft and introduce model legislation creating a natural disaster catastrophe fund," says the registration, posted Thursday by the lobbying tracking service Political Money Line.
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