By Nicholas Hoover
InformationWeek  
    
In the wake of Hurricane Katrina's communications failures and with the specter of the interoperability issues of September 11 still looming, bipartisan legislation has been introduced in the Senate to help improve the nation's critical communications.

"Many communities throughout the nation still do not have the communications infrastructure in place for first responders to communicate with one another during an emergency," says Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, chair of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee.

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