In New Orleans, a protester interrupted a Senate committee hearing Monday dealing with the reconstruction of the Gulf Coast region. The protester was holding a sign that read: “Probe the White House.” At the hearing, New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin testified that he doesn’t feel the country has the will to really fix New Orleans in light of how much money is being spent on the war in Iraq. Nagin said, “I think it’s more class than anything, but there’s racial issues associated with it also.” On Monday, President Bush defended his decision not to mention New Orleans or Hurricane Katrina during the State of the Union.